V-levels, a new vocational qualification, will be introduced by the Department for Education for 16-19-year-olds to simplify a ‘fragmented’ post-GCSE education.

This is amid an overall decrease in number of tech exams taken and against a backdrop of the UK needing to plug a STEM skills shortage. GCSE results were out today, putting half a million children - ...

New qualifications known as V Levels will be introduced for 16-year-olds to replace Btecs and other technical courses, the ...

Thousands of nervous students across the UK are about to discover their GCSE ad BTEC results today - but how does the grading system work? While lots of us remember the traditional A*-C grading system ...

Recommendations to help young people make better progress post-16 will be reflected in the coming skills white paper, ...

Alison Hardy consults for the Design and Technology Association. There has been a worrying decline in recent years in the number of teenagers opting to take design and technology (D&T) at GCSE. While ...

Tens of thousands of GCSE students will get their grades in an app on their phones on results day this summer. The government is trialling the Education Record app with 95,000 students in Manchester ...

Thousands of students across the UK will find out what grades they achieved in their GCSE exams today, August 21, as results day arrives. Pupils will find out their grades when they head back to their ...

The number of female students choosing to sit GCSE computing in the UK saw a year-on-year drop in 2021. Female candidate numbers dropped from 16,919 in 2020 to 16,549 this year, despite the overall ...