I think the skills and abilities that a grade 4 in English and maths actually evidence are very important skills for the workplace and for life. So it does feel to me appropriate that those ...

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 ...

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

With pupils resitting Maths and English GCSEs at an all-time high, and fewer than a fifth of those passing, is the system broken?

As for the class X survey, result shows that only 41% students were able to answer correctly in English; in mathematics, only 40% students made the cut.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Around 40 per cent of students failed to pass maths GCSE this year, with a similar rate for English, in ...

However, yesterday's results saw the GCSE pass rate for English and Maths hit a record low, amid fears that some pupils are being left behind.

In 2019, CBSE introduced a subject called ‘maths basic’ for those students who did not intend to pursue that subject in higher classes.