In January, UK education secretary Gavin Williamson announced that GCSE and A-level exams in England would not go ahead. Now, Williamson has outlined further information about how assessments for ...

GCSE, AS and A-level exams in England this summer will be replaced by school assessments, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has confirmed. Mr Williamson told MPs that the Government will put its ...

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The interim report sets out the areas of focus for its final report which will make recommendations to the Government in the autumn. A review will consider reducing the “volume of assessment” at GCSE ...

In this country, mathematics is a loaded subject. Whenever I say I’m a maths teacher, I'll watch the other person’s face change. There is always a reaction. A few of them will be like, “Oh my god, I ...

The difference in average GCSE English and maths results between poorer and richer pupils – the so-called “attainment gap” – is the largest in England in over a decade, according to a recent ...