News

Grammar school green paper expected from May

A green paper setting out plans for the expansion of grammar schools – both new and existing ones –...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Exam results, News

How well did 16 year-olds do in their GCSEs 2016?

There is a confusion this year between GCSE pass rates for schools, and those including re-sitters. We look at...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

How worrying is the drop in Science results?

GCSE results out. Ofqual have released numbers showing the dips and rises in school numbers. It shows a quirk...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Science GCSE pass rate drops as pupils shift from other courses

GCSE results day 2016 has revealed a dramatic drop of 3.8 per cent in the A*-C rate for science,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

Be careful! This year’s AS results are tricky…

Some AS levels this year were exactly like ones last year. Others are nothing like AS levels in the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Exam results, News

Southerners do Classics, Northerners do PE: Regional A-level figures

Putting zero stereotypes to bed, figures released today show that pupils educated in southern England are more likely to...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Exam results, News

A-level results 2016: Trends and stats from the national data

A-level results are out! Here’s what we know…   Overall Performance The proportion of A* and As grade has...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Exam results, Opinion

What we can, and cannot tell, from A-Level and GCSE results this year

A tricky part of reporting A-level and GCSE results this year is that school leaders will want different information...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Exam results, Opinion

A-level results 2016: How Schools Week will report the day and why

Last year we canvassed opinion on what people dislike about coverage of results days – A-level and GCSE –...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney