Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening to these podcasts from BBC Bitesize and Sounds. Join host Testament plus special guests to compare a range of selected poems, looking at ...
Michael Gove has brandished his red pen and banned American classics such as the Pullitzer-prize winning To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible and John Steinbeck's Of ...
Concerns raised after 703 schools say exam results worse than expected by more than 5% London: More than 700 schools have produced evidence purporting to show that pupils were unfairly treated by ...
DO you think you could pass your English Language GCSE if you went back to school this year? A new quiz puts this to the test. These 14 questions range from basic to very tricky – you’ll only get them ...
English Language GCSE should be scrapped to “end the misery” of a system which labels more than a third of 16-year-olds as failures, according to an inquiry set up by a headteachers’ union. The ...
Punctuation standards at schools are so poor that pupils taking GCSE English are completing entire exams without using a single comma. Even high-achieving pupils still do not understand basics such as ...
An estimated 60,000 GCSE pupils could face the gruelling task of having to resit their English and maths exams as hundreds of thousands fewer top grades were handed out this year following efforts to ...
It comes as Action for Children today revealed young people referred to social care at any point in their childhood were twice as likely to fail the subjects than their peers. The charity said this is ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...