Ministers have announced they are to consider letting state school students take International GCSEs courses - a qualification currently offered in a third of private schools. In an article for the ...

Following the success of last year’s maths courses, the programme has been expanded to include physics, biology, and chemistry GCSEs and IGCSEs. The intensive courses, open to students from any school ...

A new option has enabled Jewish schools to return to studying only Judaism for GCSE religious studies. From September 2016, a change in the curriculum meant that schools had to teach a second religion ...

Independent schools are turning from modular A-levels towards traditional ones where all papers are taken after two years, a survey suggests. The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference says that ...

The summer term at secondary school means one thing to pupils in Years 11 to 13: exams. Until recently pupils were entered for either GCSE or A-level examinations, with A-levels divided into two ...