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25 April 2026

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GCSE results 2021: History

Here are the trends in the latest history GCSE results for summer 2021. The proportion of grade 9 results achieved by history students, equivalent to a high A* under the old GCSE system, rose to 8.3 per cent, compared to 7.1 per cent in 2020 and 5.1 per cent in 2019. You can find the […]

A-level results 2021: History

Here are the trends in A-level history for 2021. There was a small increase in the proportion of top grades (A*/A) in history this year, while there was a drop across grades B to D.  

Covering black history is good teaching, says Gibb

Good history teaching should “always include the contribution of black and minority ethnic people to Britain’s history”, the schools minister has said. Nick Gibb also told a parliamentary debate on the teaching of black history that he expected “more and more schools” to offer history students the chance to study migration and empire. Ministers are […]

How did ‘child-centred’ dogma get established in schools?

Mary Woolley interviewed 13 veterans of history teaching, in an effort to discover how teaching has changed over the last 30 years. This is what she learned. The role and approach of teachers in classrooms is frequently contested, particularly in the history education community. Advocates of direct instruction emphasise the place of the teacher at […]

The utopian origins of comprehensive schools

The first in a weekly series of columns looking into the archives of education and using the past to make our readers smarter History is not useful. Whatever else the past is, it’s gone. Actually, that’s a lie. It’s the sort of thing I like to say to rile up historians, and watch as their […]

Remembrance is now a brand – what place does it have in schools?

The visibility of Remembrance within the public realm has grown significantly over recent years. This has been driven by the Royal British Legion, which raises nearly £42million with the Poppy Appeal, almost twice the amount of a decade ago. Activities associated with the appeal now extend into entertainment, shopping, the Poppy Lottery, and education. The […]