Private schools have moved further ahead of state schools in bagging the highest proportion of top grades this year. In England, 48.4 per cent of private school entries scored at least a 7 compared to ...

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The “chronic” under-performance of boys at GCSE should be treated as a “major issue”, it has been suggested. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at ...

Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today (Michael Cooper/PA) The proportion of GCSE entries scoring a decent pass has fallen again ...