There are set to be big changes to A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs in Northern Ireland. The Education Minister Paul Givan has said that pupils are being "over-tested" in school. His department is ...

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The GCSE pass rate has fallen slightly, with 67.4% of all grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland at 4 or C and above As students open their GCSE, BTec and Cambridge Nationals results, the head ...

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Secondary schools in an Oxfordshire town are celebrating 'impressive' sets of GCSE results. This year's cohort began secondary school in 2020, a year of disruption and restrictions due to the ...

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Imogen Farmer was taken shopping in London as a reward for her A-level grades last year Hundreds of thousands of GCSE students are opening their results on Thursday - and for some, a shiny, often ...