General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams are already under way for 14 to 16-year-olds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They began on Friday, May 12. While various subjects and ...

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 ...

Jo-Anne Baird has received research funding from the Department for Education, Ofqual and examination boards. Nearly 5.5m GCSE exam results have been released today to anxious 16-year-olds around the ...

More than 1,500 students received the incorrect results for WJEC’s Eduqas GCSE food preparation and nutrition qualification last summer. Ofqual, England’s exams watchdog, found that exam board WJEC ...

Pupils could soon sit exam papers set by AI, in a bid to cut workload and ensure the difficulty level remains consistent from year to year. The head of England’s exams regulator Ofqual discussed the ...

An exam board is set to be fined £350,000 after more than 1,500 pupils received incorrect GCSE grades on results day last year. The widespread error affected ...

GCSE exams in 2026 are scheduled to start from the week commencing Monday, 4 May and finish on Friday, 26 June. These are the most up-to-date exam dates set by each exam board, but they might change ...

A Welsh exam board is facing a £350,000 fine for giving students incorrect GCSE results. The WJEC gave pupils in England the wrong grades for their food an nutrition qualification in 2024. The course ...

The OCR, one of the three main exam boards, has replaced some of the literature giants' work in favour of "exciting and diverse" poets, including disabled and LGBTQ+ voices. Some poems by Hardy and ...

Students could see their GCSE exam time reduced by up to three hours on average, the government has announced, following a curriculum review that deemed the current volume "excessive". The final ...