Education unions have called for the policy of compulsory resits in the two subjects to be scrapped. In England, students who do not secure at least a grade 4 are required to retake the subjects ...

The curriculum and assessment review is due to set out its recommendations for young people who do not secure a decent pass in the autumn. The number of post-16 students taking GCSE resits in the ...

A significant number of teenagers who did not secure a pass in their maths and English GCSEs are being consigned to a “remorseless treadmill” of “demotivating” resits, headteachers’ unions have warned ...

The Government is considering scrapping compulsory English and maths resits at GCSE level. Pupils who fail these subjects at GCSE, aged 16, are made to resit them if they stay on for sixth form, since ...

White working class pupils will be targeted with a new GCSE resits qualification to end the misery of repeated failure in English and maths. It is understood the new functional skills course will be ...

Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have received their GCSE results today (Michael Cooper/PA) The proportion of GCSE entries scoring a decent pass has fallen again ...