Peter Urwin has received funding from the Nuffield Foundation and the ESRC. Each year, around 200,000 pupils in state-funded schools in England do not achieve a grade four or above in both English and ...

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Entries for A-level maths exceeded 100,000 this summer – the first time this milestone has been reached. The subject remained the most popular A-level this year, with a 10.9% increase in entries ...

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The school that topped the Times newspaper’s A-Level rankings in 2024 only permits students to sit A-levels in three subjects: maths, further maths and physics. At King’s College London Mathematics ...