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Rachel Shapey, founder of I Can Compose, based in Harrogate.

How a Yorkshire business is helping students to take up music as a career

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan talks to a student who has just received their GCSE results. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Young people need to realise that career paths aren’t linear - Justine Greening

Here’s what you can do if you fail your GCSE exams. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

How to resit your GCSE exams if you fail

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

An EU and a Union Flag are seen in front of Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) during a pro-EU rally in 2017. PIC: NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images

How Brexit is hampering modern foreign languages uptake - Yorkshire Post Letters

'Your article about the lack of pupils taking a GCSE in languages illustrates one of the policies of the unpopular former education secretary Michael Gove'. PIC: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

The Tories have failed to protect the education system - Yorkshire Post Letters

This is a horrible time for any kids sitting GCSEs and A-levels – and speaking personally, it’s hardly a picnic for their parents either, says Sarah Coles

Why financial education should never fall by the wayside -Sarah Coles

Headteacher answers your questions about why you should send your child to Heckmondwike Grammar School and how to apply

Ad Feature High-ranking Heckmondwike Grammar announces open days

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

Heckmondwike Grammar School celebrating its 125th anniversary

Ad Feature Heckmondwike Grammar School celebrates 125 years of excellence

Nile Wilson was crowned champion of Dancing on Ice 2023. Photo: PA/Jonathan Brady

Yorkshire's Nile Wilson on Dancing on Ice, gymnastics and facing injury

Students sitting their GCSE mock exams. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

A simple trip to the shop will show you the importance of maths - YP Letters

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to a school in London. PIC: Henry Nicholls/PA Wire

Rishi Sunak’s maths announcement just doesn’t add up - Jayne Dowle

Product developer Bethany Jacobs with her mum Judi in an M&S store.

The Leeds woman who has developed new M&S sprout dish for Christmas

Leeds City College is a part of Luminate Education Group.

Further education sector needs clear strategy from Government - Ann Marie Spry

Ackworth School celebrating GCSE results

Ad Feature Ackworth School celebrate GCSE success

It's a thumbs up for these Pocklington School students on GCSE results day.

GCSEs: Pocklington School students achieve outstanding results

GCSE students receive their results.

Why we should celebrate result-day talent regardless of outcomes - Nikki Davis

The deadline is looming for the entrance exam registration for popular grammar school

Ad Feature HGS announces open day and exam registration

First News: A beary good idea!

Concerns have been raised about proposals to limit who can receive a student loan.

Restricting access to student loans will hit ethnicity minority students hardest
Requiring young people wanting to go to university to have passed GCSE maths and English to be eligible for student loans will disproportionately affect ethnic minority students and increase already large socio-economic gaps in higher education, the Government has been warned.

The annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) takes place in Birmingham today and president, Pepe Di’Iasio, is expected to say that the Government must rethink its decision to publish key stage 4 and post-16 performance tables based on this summer’s GCSE and A-level results.

Headteacher urges government to u-turn on performance tables publication plans

Ben Simpson aka Doctor Simpo pictured at Bates Mill Creative Spaces, Fairfield Mills, Huddersfield with his animated character SnotDog

The Leeds lecturer hoping to be the next Sponge Bob

The Government's Covid catch-up plans for schools continue to be scrutinised.

Pupils need more help to survive perfect storm after Covid – Sue O’Brien

Derek Whitehead will be retiring after 37 years in education at the end of this academic year.

Staff deserve to be paid more but there isn't the income to do that

Will GCSEs be made easier this year? The full story...

GCSEs made easier - all you need to know about GCSE grades from exams this year

Ripon Grammar School

The 10 best state secondary schools in Yorkshire according to The Sunday Times

One in seven young people in the UK believe their development has suffered from learning disruptions. Picture: AdobeStock

Support emerging talent, or risk losing it all together - Claire Pryke

Students can choose A-Level and GCSE exam topics next year - Ofqual and educatio...

Undated file photo of students sitting an exam. (PA/Gareth Fuller)

Pupils to be given advance notice of exam focus after 18 months of disruption

Sophie Lofthouse (second right) and Hannah Walton-Hughes (left) react as students at The Mount School, York, receive their A-Level results: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Record Alevel and GCSE results show the exam system is broken, says Catherine Sc...

A number of big restaurant chains - including Nando’s - are offering free food deals to A Level and GCSE students this week (Photos: Getty Images/Flickr)

Where to get free food on GCSE results day 2021 - including Nando’s, Las Iguanas...

File photo dated 22/08/19 of students opening their GCSE results at Robert May's School in Odiham, Hampshire (PA/Victoria Jones)

GCSE results soar to record high after second year of pandemic cancelled exams

Students at Boston Spa Academy celebrate their A-Level results. Photo: Tony Johnson.

GCSE and A-level results; the key lessons here in Yorkshire – Jayne Dowle

The Covid crisis has posed unprecedented challenges for schools and students ahead of this year's A-Level and GCSE results.

A-level results: Children and teachers have been let down - Helen Rafferty

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Richard Calvert, degree apprentice Shelagh Carter, graduate mentor Mariya Masood, South Yorkshire Mayor Dan Jarvis MP, nursing student Helen Metcalfe, Greg Mattocks-Evans and degree apprentice Natasha Parcei.

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Pictured, two secondary school students collecting their exam results last year. More than 1.2m pupils will receive their A-level and GCSE grades “on what they have been taught,” after teachers in England have helped decide after exams were cancelled for the second successive year due to Covid-19.Photo credit: Getty Images

'Perfect storm' set for A Level and GCSE appeals, says Northern education leader

Teachers in England have helped decide more than 1.2m pupils’ A-level and GCSE grades - which will be received by students next month - “on what they have been taught,” after exams were cancelled for the second successive year due to Covid-19. Photo credit: PA

Exam boss says A Level and GCSE grades will be 'fair' amid Northern schools fear

Schools are expected to mark ‘One Britain One Nation’ events today.

One Britain One Nation schools song detracts from Gavin Williamson’s serial fail...

MPs say terms like “white privilege” may have contributed towards neglect of poorer white pupils (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poorer white pupils suffer years of neglect due to terms like ‘white privilege’,...

Gavin Williamson. Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images.

Week Ahead: Education Secretary Gavin William faces MPs over school catch-up

The Government has been urged to address the worrying concern of 'inconsistencies' with proposed GCSE and A-level grading approach, and 'extremely high' levels of grade inflation.

Risk of 'inconsistencies' with current grading approach, says education leaders

Boris Johnson during a school visit earlier this week.

Exams; how lockdown has been the making of students – The Yorkshire Post says

This year’s grading system will be built around teachers’ judgements after exams were cancelled (Shutterstock)

This is how A-level and GCSE results will be decided in 2021

GCSE and A Level grades will be decided by teachers this year, exams watchdog Ofqual has announced (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE and A Level results will be decided by teachers this year - despite 2020's ...

Exams last year were cancelled due to coronavirus. Photo: PA

Exam results days brought forward as teacher-determined grades to be awarded

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson Picture: PA

Why does Gavin Williamson continue to let down our young people ? - Catherine Sc...

Elmet and Rothwell MP Alec Shelbrooke. Photo: JPI Media

Yorkshire MP calls for ministers to postpone exams until Christmas

Group Of Teenage Students Sitting Examination In School Hall

Why we need to avoid another GCSE and A level fiasco - Catherine Scott

GCSE, A Levels and SATs exams in England will be replaced by teacher assessments...

'Alternative arrangements’ will be made for GCSE and A Level exams this year - w...

A large group of head teachers has called for the scrapping of GCSE and A-level exams this summer amid chaos over plans for reopening schools this month due to the Covid-19 crisis. PIC: PA

Headteachers call for scrapping of exams

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.

Scandal of headteachers betrayed by Gavin Williamson – The Yorkshire Post says

Concerns are growing about the impact of Covid-19 on the education of children of all ages.

No plan for schools as new lockdown imposed – Jayne Dowle

Nicola Adams, Katya Jones performing on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing Picture: BBC/ Guy Levy

Why we all need a bit of Strictly magic - Catherine Scott

File photo of a general view of pupils sitting an exam. Most A-level and GCSE exams in England will be delayed by three weeks next year due to the pandemic, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has confirmed. Photo: PA

Going ahead with exams next year will disadvantage Northern pupils

Next year's A-Level and GCSE exams are set to be delayed by three weeks.

‘Class of 2021’ exams need more contingency planning – Yorkshire Post Letters

Students achieve exceptionally well in this outstanding academy, say OFSTED inspectors

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Signs on a window at Manchester Metropolitan University's Birley campus where hundreds of students have been told to self-isolate. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Students deserve sympathy not scorn as they pick up tab for Covid-19 crisis - Bi...

Most schools have resumed, like this class in Doncaster, but uncertainty over exams remains.

Start again with exams or bring back O-levels – Chris McGovern