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A-levels

September 2026

  • Music Education : A young girl musician playing the violin at MusicFest Aberystwyth July 2017KF0KK8 Music Education : A young girl musician playing the violin at MusicFest Aberystwyth July 2017

    The Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school

    Editorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged
  • The main Cardiff university building, completed in 1909: it is pale stone with arched windows on the ground floor and pillars around a grand entrance. Students walk along a path in front.

    Students squeezed out of university courses after bumper A-level grades

  • Graduates attend their graduation ceremony

    UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

  • Blurred image of students walking along a school corridor beside a window

    Behind England’s bumper A-level results lie record levels of regional disparities

    Need for Burnham to tackle regional inequality could not be clearer as London becomes ‘educational outlier’
  • Students at Neath Port Talbot College react as they receive their results.

    The Guardian view on A-level and T-level results: a boost to the nation’s confidence

    Editorial: Young people should be proud of their achievements. Ministers should focus on what comes next

    • London pulls further ahead as A-level regional divide for top grades hits record – as it happened

    • ‘I’m going for a few pints now’: nerves and joy as students collect their A-level results

    • Students set new records for A-level grades in bumper year

  • Students sit an exam at rows of individual desks inside a hall

    Students face ‘ticking timebomb’ of debt and higher taxes

    Exclusive: Analysis finds cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’
  • A-level chemistry students during a practical lesson in a secondary school

    The Guardian view on the two cultures: bridge the divide, starting with A-levels

    Editorial: Seventy years after CP Snow warned of estrangement between the sciences and arts, breadth in education should be encouraged

June 2026

  • Students sitting exams, seen from behind.

    Smartglasses and earpieces may worsen exam cheating in schools, says Ofqual

    Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham

May 2026

  • Zoe Williams

    double quotation markThere is no state more impotent than being a parent of a teenager doing A-levels

    Zoe Williams
    Holding a flashcard for chemistry or further maths fills me with a unique kind of horror. Does anyone really understand this, asks Zoe Williams

April 2026

  • Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770. James Cook (1728-1779), English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, made three voyages of discovery. On the first he observed the transit of Venus and charted the coasts of New Zealand and eastern Australia, claiming them for Britain, and on the second he explored the Southern Ocean. The main objective of his last voyage was to find a northern sea passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. He was killed when a fight broke out with natives in Hawaii. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

    Colonial blindspot in British history teaching

  • Astrid Barltrop

    double quotation markHow will attitudes change if students like me aren’t taught the truth about British colonial history?

    Astrid Barltrop

March 2026

  • Rear View Of High School Students Walking Into College Building TogetherR81X70 Rear View Of High School Students Walking Into College Building Together

    The Guardian view on post-16 qualifications: the case for V-levels replacing BTecs is unproven

    Editorial: Pausing the scrapping of existing qualifications was the right decision. But the wider battle over further education continues

December 2025

  • Students sitting or moving among rows of desks.

    Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards

    Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test that some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English
  • Francis Lee and Williams holding notebooks and pen looking at camera

    Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

    As the exam regulator consults about introducing onscreen exams amid complaints of hand fatigue, a young aspiring journalist goes head-to-head with a self-professed expert
  • Maths exam in progress at a secondary school in Gloucestershire

    Some GCSEs and A-levels in England could be taken on laptops by 2030, Ofqual says

    Qualifications watchdog launches consultation amid complaints from pupils about writing fatigue in exams

November 2025

  • Child drawing in art class

    England’s curriculum review needs to be more radical

  • Police officers work on the platform at Huntingdon station following a mass stabbing on the train on 1 November.

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    Safety of train users and staff is paramount

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