An exam board has said GCSE students have 'too many exams' and has called for more coursework instead. OCR said the big focus on testing leads to a 'narrow range of learning' because schools are ...

Coursework, known as non-exam assessment, is completed by GCSE computer science pupils during their studies, and is currently worth 20% of their final mark. Students due to take their exams in the ...

A Merseyside teacher has been banned from the classroom after watchdogs heard he falsified GCSE coursework. James McGill, 53, who was head of science at Parklands High School in Speke, has been ...

Coursework will not count towards final GCSE computer science grades over the next two years, England’s exams regulator has confirmed. The move comes amid concerns about widespread cheating in ...

But at GCSE, many parents have not yet given up, or despaired of, improving their children's exam performances. They can find it very hard not to assist just a little bit: buying that book, laying on ...

The exams watchdog has announced sweeping cuts to GCSE coursework as part of the Government's drive to stamp out cheating in schools. Traditional coursework will be axed in business studies ...

An overhaul of GCSE coursework has been damaging to modern foreign language classes, according to a report by the exams regulator. It reveals teachers' concerns that the move to axe traditional ...