Private schools have moved further ahead of state schools in bagging the highest proportion of top grades this year. In England, 48.4 per cent of private school entries scored at least a 7 compared to ...

London and north-east England continue to have the highest and lowest proportion of GCSE entries awarded grade 7/A or above in England, but the gap between the regions has narrowed for the first time ...

Last year, more than a fifth (21.8%) of UK GCSE entries were awarded the top grades – at least a 7 or an A grade, down from 22.0% in 2023. Credit: PA The “chronic” under-performance of boys at GCSE ...

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 GCSE gender gap is the smallest it has been since the year 2000, with boys slowly closing in on the lead set by girls, the 2025 exam figures show. English and maths resits have reached an all-time ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers who moved from primary to secondary school during the pandemic have received their GCSE results - with the gender gap for top grades persisting. Nearly a quarter (24 ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research shows.

Six of the nine regions of England saw a rise this year in the proportion of GCSE entries awarded grade 7/A or above. The proportion of GCSE entries awarded the top grades varies across the country ...

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