Revise for your GCSE English literature exam by listening to these podcasts from BBC Bitesize and Sounds. Join host Testament plus special guests to compare a range of selected poems, looking at ...

Pearson, one of the three leading exam boards in the UK, has warned that urgent reform at GSCE level is needed. If English (as a subject) is to survive at both A-Level and higher education, it needs ...

The Government launched a review of curriculum and assessment in schools and colleges just weeks after winning the general ...

Pupils are three times more likely to get the top grade in the new English GCSE with one exam board over another, figures show. The exams watchdog has been urged to investigate after it emerged that 6 ...

Britain’s biggest exam board has added a more diverse set of texts to its English GCSE syllabus, following complaints about there being too many “dead white men”. Edexcel, which is owned by Pearson, ...

The Government will work to cut GCSE exam time by two-and-a-half to three hours for the average student, it has announced, ...

Immigrant children would be allowed to sit an easier English GCSE than native speakers under proposals being drawn up by Government exam chiefs. Up to 60,000 a year would take a new GCSE in "English ...

A great grandfather has said he felt emotional after gaining his English GCSE - 59 years after leaving school. Danny Davey, 73 from Ipswich, left education at the age of 14. He returned to Suffolk New ...