All news on the topic: GCSEs

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Man who left school with one GCSE turns £500 overdraft into £350m business
Myprotein founder Oliver Cookson has created a business empire after having a simple idea from going to the gym. He started off with a £500 overdraft but now runs a multi-million pound business
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Girl, 15, thought 'growing pains' were normal - but it was a brain tumour
Honey Ibbitson, now 15, was aged just six when she started feeling discomfort in her legs, leading her mother Julie, 36, to take her for medical tests, with doctors misdiagnosing the brain tumour she had as growing pains
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'Impossible' GCSE maths question leaving parents mind-blown - crack the code
It turns out even parents would struggle to sit their GCSE maths paper now, as one question is leaving adults completely baffled. It has a 100% fail rate - can you work it out?
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Luke Littler has just one GCSE as darts sensation bids for £500,000 payday
Teenage darts sensation Luke Littler will aim to become the youngest ever winner of the PDC World Championship on Wednesday when he takes on Luke Humphries in the final
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Kids to take GCSE in British Sign Language as Rose Ayling-Ellis raises awareness
A new qualification will teach students to sign effectively using British Sign Language and give them an understanding of the history of sign language in the UK
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Prince William surprises mum on charity walk for daughter who took her own life
Emma Webb is on day 13 of a 157-mile charity walk from Chepstow to London Docklands in memory of her beloved daughter Brodie, who tragically took her own life when she was just 16 years old
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UK's best schools for 2023 unveiled - see if your kid's school is on the list
An all-boys school whose students were ‘forged in the horrors of Covid’ has beaten Eton College to become the best secondary in the country for 2024 after turning in stellar results
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I'm a Celeb's Danielle Harold - 'tough' upbringing to Jamie Oliver reality stint
Known for her gritty and complex storylines on EastEnders, former soap actress Danielle Harold is set to join the cast of the upcoming season of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! We take a closer look at Danielle's life off-screen life
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Kids 'aren't recovering' properly from pandemic as 1 in 4 say they're lonely
Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza called for Rishi Sunak to help struggling youngsters with a Play Out to Help Out scheme - mimicking the Eat Out to Help Out initiative to kick-start hospitality after lockdown
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UK's brainiest teen with IQ higher than Einstein has taken 28 A levels
The Mensa member has an IQ of 161 - higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking’s 160 - and has done four A levels since September. She now aims to pass another 24
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GPs told to get missing kids back to class as absence crisis leads to GCSE slump
The Children's Commissioner found around 20,000 pupils finishing their GCSEs last summer had missed half or more of their classes in one of their final two years of school
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National lottery winner kept teaching to help kids pass GCSEs despite £2m riches
The teacher-turned-millionaire stayed on at his job for months after his big win as he wanted to help his pupils complete their GCSEs - and says the profession will always be “part” of him
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Mel B treats her daughter with ex Eddie Murphy to posh meal after GCSE success
Spice Girls star Mel B took her 16-year-old daughter Angel Iris Murphy Brown, shared with ex Eddie Murphy, out for a posh Japanese meal at TADA restaurant in Leeds
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Peter Andre proud of Princess' results despite her 'not passing all' GSCEs
Peter Andre says he's 'proud' of his daughter Princess for 'working hard' in her GCSEs after the teenager revealed on Instagram Live she didn't to pass all her exams
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Boris Johnson's ex catch-up chief savages Tories for North-South GCSE divide
Sir Kevan Collins, who quit in 2021 over the Government's miserly catch-up plans, said ministers had 'made a huge mistake' by failing to invest in education recovery after Covid
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GCSE results show North-South divide as Tory levelling up vow 'dead and buried'
Just 17.6% of teenagers in the North East received the top grades of 7/A or above in their GCSE results, compared to 28.4% in London - a 10.8 percentage point gap
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'Levelling up impossible without fixing geographical inequalities in education'
'Addressing the impacts of poverty on education is likely to go a long way towards closing regional gaps,' writes Carl Cullinane, Director of Research and Policy at the Sutton Trust
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Myleene Klass breaks down in tears as daughter Ava receives her GCSE results
Former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass shared a heartwarming video of Ava announcing her GCSE results before sharing a heartfelt post insisting that 'exams are not for everyone'
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Spice Girls' Emma Bunton shares snap with rarely-seen son on GCSE results day
Fans can't believe how quickly Beau has grown up after Spice Girl Emma Bunton showed him off to the world after saying he totally smashed his GCSEs on results day
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Thousands trying to upload GCSE results panic as uni applications link times out
Applicaa, which is used by more than 1000 schools and colleges, says it's working "super hard" to resolve the issue after teenagers struggled to get onto the system to upload their exam results today
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Love Island stars' GCSE results - Kem Cetinay's struggle and genius Molly-Mae
As students up and down the country receive their GCSE results, we take a look at how some of Love Island's most famous contestants fared when they were at school
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Princess Andre opens GCSE results live on Instagram as dad Peter looks on
Princess Andre has shared her GCSE results after explaining that she 'didn't pass all of them' as the daughter of Katie Price and Peter Andre joined teenagers across the country in discovering her marks
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GCSE grades fall but still above pre-Covid levels - see full stats
More than a fifth (22.0%) of UK GCSE entries were awarded the top grades - at least a 7 or an A grade - this year, down by 4.3 percentage points on last year when 26.3% of entries achieved the top grades
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Everything you need to know about GCSE exam resits - dates and how to apply
GCSE Results Day has seen students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive their grades in various school subjects today, but those disappointed with their marks can resit exams
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GCSE grades fall but still above pre-Covid levels as thousands expected to resit
Hundreds of thousands of teens across England received their GCSE exam results on Thursday in a year when efforts have been made in England to return grading to pre-pandemic levels