Education unions have called for the policy of compulsory resits in the two subjects to be scrapped. In England, students who do not secure at least a grade 4 are required to retake the subjects ...

The curriculum and assessment review is due to set out its recommendations for young people who do not secure a decent pass in the autumn. The number of post-16 students taking GCSE resits in the ...

Each year, around 200,000 pupils in state-funded schools in England do not achieve a grade four or above in both English and Maths GCSE at age 16: about one-third of all students. The Department for ...

The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young people’s “confidence and motivation”, education leaders have warned.

The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level. Pupils who fail these subjects at GCSE, aged 16, are made to resit them if they stay on for sixth form, since ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to lowest in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to resit them ...

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 ...

Pupils who fail GCSEs in maths and English will be banned from taking student loans in an attempt to restrict the numbers going to university and weed out pointless courses, it was revealed today. The ...

There has been a significant drop in the number of pupils in Guernsey passing both English and Maths subjects. The pass rate was 60% for both in 2022 but dropped to 55% in 2023. Figures from the ...