DfE brings in minimum teaching hours for GCSE English and maths resits Teach maths resit students for at least 4 hours a week and English for 3 or face funding reduction, sixth forms warned
EBacc to the past: DfE hits brakes on accountability shake-up Leaders welcome pause on plans to ‘incentivise’ subject take-up
GCSE maths re-sit pass rate lower than pre-pandemic But performance in English re-takes continues to rise
Ofqual reveals new interim chair Former teacher and college principal Frances Wadsworth will step up when Sir Ian Bauckham takes up chief regulator post
Ofqual confirms plan for GCSE exam aids in 2024 Exams regulator green lights formulae and equation sheets for one final year
Exams: Pupil cheating rises by a fifth, with harsher punishments The number of pupils caught cheating in GCSE and A-level exams continues to rise
OCR to launch first fully-digital GCSE in 2025 On-screen computer science exam would allow for a ‘more authentic assessment’, but schools can opt out
Thousands more kids leaving school without GCSE grades ‘new norm’ Analysis shows 3.3 per cent of pupils received no grade in English in 2023, compared with 1.7 per cent in 2019
GCSE disadvantage gap widens again Gap in attainment between poorer pupils and better-off peers widest since 2011