GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

White working class pupils will be targeted with a new GCSE resits qualification to end the misery of repeated failure in English and maths. It is understood the new functional skills course will be ...

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The policy of making school pupils resit GCSEs until they pass is "not fit for purpose", education leaders have said. This year, a record number of GCSE exams were compulsory resits, and calls are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Around 40 per cent of students failed to pass maths GCSE this year, with a similar rate for English, in ...

It comes as Action for Children today revealed young people referred to social care at any point in their childhood were twice as likely to fail the subjects than their peers. The charity said this is ...

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