Private schools should drop international GCSE qualifications because they “are not as challenging” or rigorously assessed as their traditional counterparts, the Education Secretary has said. Nicky ...

A head teacher leader says independent schools which enter pupils for International GCSES will create a two-tier, private-state system. John Dunford of the Association of School and College Leaders ...

Tough tests are forced on state schools as data reveals benefit to independent sector Tory education reforms are giving private school pupils a huge additional advantage in the hunt for university ...

Summer has arrived, and fifteen to sixteen year-olds all over the UK are celebrating the end of the dreaded GCSE year. Having recently completed my exams, I look back and all I can remember is stress ...

Soaring numbers of pupils are being entered for a qualification that is often seen as a tougher alternative to GCSEs, new figures suggest. Schools have made more than 115,000 entries for international ...