Meanwhile, pass rates for GCSE maths resit exams improved marginally. The data showed 24.1 per cent of resit entrants ...

These short films are from the BBC series, Shakespeare Unlocked. Suitable for teaching GCSE English literature and drama in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and National 4/ 5 in Scotland.

English is considered an absolute building block of education and should remain the case, whatever the next reform to befall ...

How Barking & Dagenham College’s CPD initiative encouraged teachers to innovate - turning GCSE English resitters into ...

This activity is suitable for GCSE English Literature students studying the characters of Macbeth. You can learn more about the characters by clicking the links below.

The classic American novel Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales from next September amid concerns about racism and the use of racial slurs. John Steinbeck's text, set in the ...

As the largest exam board in the UK, there is a good chance that others may soon follow suit - with both AQA and OCR both also trialling digital exam formats in recent years. But what will it mean for ...

Welsh exam board picks removes John Steinbeck’s novella following concerns of ‘psychological and emotional’ harm ...

The Government should review GCSE English as teachers say it is uninspiring and “too mechanistic”, the leader of a major exam board has said. Colin Hughes, chief executive of AQA, said pupils ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men has been scrapped from a GCSE curriculum amid concerns over its "racist language".

Teachers are allowed to use audiobooks to teach GCSE English. Literacy charities claim playing recorded stories during lessons can be “the key to unlocking students’ love of reading”.