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Pupils are celebrating another top grades bonanza as one in five GCSE entries got at least a grade 7 or A following a rise on last year. For England, the proportion is the highest since 2012 outside ...

Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today (Michael Cooper/PA) The proportion of GCSE entries scoring a decent pass has fallen again ...

New GCSE performance data for the most recent 2024/25 school year is out now But how well pupils did once again varied considerably across the country There was also an almost 9 percentage point ...

The “chronic” under-performance of boys at GCSE should be treated as a “major issue”, it has been suggested. Professor Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at ...

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