Search results for ‘GCSE’
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Can any towns weather the retail storm?
As figures show the worst retail sales growth for six months, Channel 4 News looks at which towns and cities in the UK are best placed to weather the economic crisis.
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Ted Hughes memorial marks poetic evolution
As the former Poet laureate Ted Hughes is honoured with a new plaque in Westminster Abbey, Felicity Spector asks whether poetry is undergoing something of a renaissance.
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A-levels: Brian Cox, China, and the recession
More than 40 per cent more students took maths A-level this year than five years ago, but modern languages and general studies are in decline. Channel 4 News looks at why.
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Maths A-level boost as languages fall away
As this year’s A-level results show a rise in the pass rate for the 29th year in a row, data also suggests the number of students taking maths has risen dramatically while languages are in decline.
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Pupils ‘should study maths up to age 18’
Pupils in English schools should study maths up to the age of 18, says a new report commissioned by the Government and led by TV’s Carol Vorderman.
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Report exposes Oxbridge entry divide
Four private schools and one sixth-form college send more students to Oxbridge than the bottom 2,000 schools put together, new figures reveal.
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Why did Cameron crack the whip over circus animals?
FactCheck returns to the debate over banning the use of wild animals in circuses – and why the Prime Minister has taken such a stand on the issue.
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Does Labour’s exam paper attack need revising?
Who marks the markers? Exam boards are under fire after a spate of mistakes in papers. But have Labour been swotting up on the details?
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Exam boards apologise for more errors
AQA and OCR apologise and launch investigations after errors were found in A-level and GCSE exam papers sat by tens of thousands of pupils this week.
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Is the academy programme the answer for failing schools?
Are academies the magic bullet that will save Britain’s failing schools? FactCheck hit the books…
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Gove’s education plan ‘breathtaking ignorance’ warns union
The Education Secretary announces 200 of the worst-performing primary schools will be turned into academies by 2013. But the move has been criticised by the NUT as “breathtaking ignorance.”
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July 7 witness: Veronica Cassidy
Ciaran Cassidy was on his way to work in central London when he was killed in the Russell Square tube bombing on July 7. His mother Veronica told the inquest about her son’s life.
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‘Tiger mothers’: the Chinese route to success?
What do the Chinese know about parenting that we don’t? And would their methods ever be acceptable over here? Katie Razzall meets the author of a controversial new book on “tiger mothers”.
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Axing EMA is ‘counter-productive’ say students
As more student protests take place about plans to axe the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), 18-year old Charley Portet writes for Channel 4 News about the importance of the grant.
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Schools in England struggle to hit ‘moving target’
An updated league table system for England has left more than 200 schools failing to meet tough new standards branded “even more meaningless than usual”, as Darshna Soni discovers.
