Nearly a quarter of girls’ entries received one of the higher grades against around a fifth of those from boys Almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths The proportion of GCSE ...

Girls have once again achieved better GCSE results than boys - but the gap between the genders is getting smaller. Thousands of pupils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland discovered their ...

THE substance of this volume has formed the material of a course of lectures delivered for some years past to undergraduates in Glasgow. Its object is to provide the student, whose bent is towards ...

All Cambridge International Schools to opt for portfolio of evidence route Dubai: Cambridge International Education has announced that schools in the UAE will not sit traditional exams in the June ...

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Will has been a passionate reporter on anime for over a decade. Initially blogging about why more people should watch Attack on Titan, he has reported from festivals worldwide and interviewed some of ...

Interim report for schools in England to also recommend more emphasis on digital and media literacy, sustainability and climate science Pupils should sit fewer GCSE exams and Michael Gove’s English ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...