The government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

The number of pupils sitting resits this year was at an all-time high For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking ...

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

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Experts talk of ‘resit crisis’ as number accounts for nearly a quarter of maths and English entries, an all-time high This year’s GCSE results in England delivered something that teachers and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young ...