GCSEs

latest GCSEs news and features

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  Teenage schoolgirl collapsed and died while revising for GCSEs

  May 15th, 2013

  A teenage schoolgirl collapsed and died while revising for her GCSE exams. Arabella Campbell, 16,...

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  'Humiliating U-turn!' Michael Gove abandons plans to replace GCSEs

  Feb 7th, 2013

  Michael Gove has thrown another spanner in the works by performing a spectacular U-turn on plans to...

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  Is it time you let your teenager fail?

  There's a birthday card that makes me laugh out loud: rows and rows of owls sitting uniformly on...

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  School exams 'stifle children's creativity'

  Oct 8th, 2012

  The switch from GCSEs to the exam-based English Baccalaureate will stifle children’s creativity at...

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  How will the change from GCSEs to the English Bac affect children currently studying?

  So. It's goodbye GCSEs and hello English Baccalaureate. It's goodbye to continually assessed...

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  Girl who was given weeks to live gets 12 GCSEs

  Aug 24th, 2012

  Kirsty Howard was given just weeks to live when she was a child. Now 16, she's celebrating 12 GCSEs...

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  Transgender pupil ordered to change into boys' clothes to sit GCSE exam

  Jul 23rd, 2012

  A 16-year-old transgender school pupil was told by her headmaster she was not allowed to take a...

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  Surviving Teenagers: Welcome to exam season

  Welcome to exam season. If you’ve got teenagers, you’re now treading that impossible line between...

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  What's the English Baccalaureate all about?

  Feb 23rd, 2012

  My daughter's just reached the stage of choosing her GCSE options, and as if I didn't feel old...

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