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• GCSE results 2008

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  GCSE results: One in five achieve top grades

  A sharp increase in top grades at GCSE was reported today as students concentrate on fewer subjects.

  • Polly Curtis talks to Lord Adonis
  • GCSE results for all subjects - 2008
  • What next after GCSEs?

• Live GCSE results: Comprehensives and academies

  GCSE results for schools across England, updated throughout the day

  • Live GCSE results: Grammar schools
  • For schools: how to login and post your results

• GCSEs 2008: Advice from our experts

  Post your questions on GCSEs and experts will offer you live impartial advice and guidance on your next step

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  No increase in take-up of languages

  Dec 3 2008:

  Despite efforts to raise interest, teenagers at state schools continue to turn their backs on language study

• Science as a way of knowing

  Nov 27 2008:

  Adam Rutherford: A report on children's poor science knowledge may, in fact, be unscientific, but our future depends on evidence-based methods

• Pupils of today struggle with science questions of the 60s

  Nov 27 2008:

  Evidence shows standards are slipping as comparison is made of exam papers through the decades

• Exam paper error causes GCSE physics upset

  Nov 20 2008:

  Tens of thousands of students given faulty papers by exam board

• Tories promise to link exams to world benchmark

  Nov 18 2008:

  The shadow schools minister, Michael Gove, pledges to reverse 'devaluation' of English exam grades

• Few sign up for flagship diplomas

  Nov 14 2008:

  Tories say just 12,000 have registered in schools and colleges, well below the government target

• Balls to tackle 'coasting' schools

  Nov 13 2008:

  Those classed as satisfactory could do more to stretch pupils and improve results

• Gary Glitter singalong at schools

  Nov 10 2008:

  There is an outcry on the front page of the Sun and elsewhere today about the decision of an exam board to suggest GCSE music students should listen to a Gary Glitter track

• Gary Glitter removed from GCSE music paper

  Nov 10 2008:

  Song recorded by convicted paedophile in 1973 is removed from 'related listening' on GCSE assignment

• Sainsbury staff offered help with maths and English

  Nov 6 2008:

  Supermarket wants 25% of workforce to gain equivalent of GCSE qualifications within five years

• Exam board changes science GCSE pass mark

  Oct 24 2008:

  Easier to get grade C as boundary lowered under pressure

• Labour's bullying approach to schools

  Oct 17 2008:

  Michael Gove: Government ministers have taken a Whitehall-knows-best attitude to education. Conservatives will offer independence and choice

• More than half leave school without five good GCSEs

  Oct 17 2008:

  Opposition MPs criticise the lack of progress in closing the achievement gap between rich and poor

• Table: GCSE results 2007-8 by region and local authority

  Oct 16 2008: Full GCSE results for every authority in England divided by gender and region

• Fewer than half of pupils got five good GCSEs this year

  Oct 16 2008:

  Government claims progress as figures show 47% achieved grades A-C for five subjects including English and maths

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