As Year 11’s take in their final grades, students and parents share their thoughts on studying during a pandemicPupils across the UK have received their GCSE results after a year grappling with online learning and the uncertainty caused by Covid-19.GCS…
Record grade inflation isn’t the only thing that’s different about this year’s exams | Gill Wyness
The unprecedented A-level and GCSE scores raise challenging questions about how to measure future student cohortsThis week’s GCSE and A-level results confirmed the expectations of many who study education policy: the proportion of students achieving to…
GCSE results: pupils achieve record numbers of top grades in England
Thirty per cent of entries gain grades 7 and above – equivalent to A and A* – but rise is well below that in A-levelsRecord numbers of top GCSE grades were awarded to pupils in England but the rise was well below that recorded for the highest A-level g…
Share your reaction and experiences on GCSE results day 2021
Whatever your story, and wherever you’re headed next, tell us how you feel about this year’s resultsGCSE students in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland find out their results today after a year of study disrupted by the pandemic. We would like to hea…
School results in Scotland dip slightly after year of disruption
Pupils achieve record A grades but attainment gap between the most deprived and affluent students widensA-level results day – live news and reactionScottish pupils have achieved record A grades alongside a slight fall in the overall pass rate, but the …
The Irish language can give us all a sense of home – if we save it from sectarianism | Susan McKay
A campaign to stop Belfast’s first Irish-language preschool shows how dysfunctional unionist politics has becomeThe hard men of Ulster loyalism are adept at spotting Trojan horses. Belfast’s first Irish-language preschool, planned to open in September,…
Nearly 45% of A-level entries across UK awarded top grades
Schools celebrate record-breaking return for students in year disrupted by pandemicA-level results day – live news and reactionNearly 45% of A-level entries across the UK have been awarded top grades in A-level results, a record-breaking return for stu…
Sex Education Xplorers (SEX) review – a biology lesson for the 21st century
Summerhall, EdinburghMamoru Iriguchi and Afton Moran raid their dressing-up box to give us a cheery guide to the evolutionary history of reproduction, and what it says about gender fluidity in humansI imagine the curriculum has changed since my day but…
Fears as more children falling ill in latest US Covid surge and school approaches
National Institutes of Health director says 1,450 kids in hospital Teachers union shifts, calls for vaccine mandates for teachers Amid increased fears that children are now both victims and vectors of the latest Covid-19 variant surge, National Institu…
Requiescat in pace: no need to resurrect Latin in schools
Bob Ross is at odds with Tory plans to introduce Latin lessons in state schoolsI had to have a quiet chuckle at the education secretary’s plans to spend £4m on teaching Latin to the sons and daughters of the hoi polloi (Cartoon, 1 August). My first tho…