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September 2026

  • Student learning how to do building work

    The Guardian view on vocational GCSEs: why now?

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movementPBXPFX Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school UK, blurred movement

    Did you sit vocational qualifications in the past and more recently in England? We would like to hear from you

  • A dagger, skull and bloodied copy of Macbeth

    Doom, gloom and GCSE English

  • 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

August 2026

  • Students writing their GCSE exam

    Students are being set up to fail by compulsory GCSE resits

  • School students sitting their GCSE examinations.

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    It’s time to do away with pass/fail exams

  • Polly Toynbee

    double quotation markHow can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start

    Polly Toynbee
  • GSCE exams surveyEMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY OCTOBER 4 File photo dated 07/03/12 of a general view of pupils sitting an exam. Among students who received the lowest GCSE grades, nearly half felt that GCSEs did not help them move forward in the next stage of their lives. Issue date: Monday October 4, 2021. PA Photo. More than three in five young people wish they had been assessed in skills like teamwork or communication in their GCSEs rather than just academic subjects, a survey suggests. See PA story EDUCATION Exams. Photo credit should read: David Jones/PA Wire

    We would like to hear from young people in England who didn’t pass English and/or Maths GCSE

  • Leaders attack ‘demotivating’ plan to make pupils who fail GCSEs retake maths and English

  • The Guardian view on GCSE results: much to celebrate, much to reform

  • GCSE results: girls still ahead but gender gap narrows as hundreds of thousands of pupils receive grades – as it happened

  • GCSE results: almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths

  • Compulsory GCSE resits in England harm teenagers’ mental wellbeing, study finds

  • AI cheating, leaked papers and marking errors: how exam protests went global

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

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

  • 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

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

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