Are South African learners set up for failure in maths? According to the latest International Mathematics and Science Study, conducted in 2019, which assessed general mathematical and scientific ...

Google DeepMind announced on 21 July that its software had cracked a set of maths problems at the level of the world’s top secondary-school students, achieving a gold-medal score on questions from the ...

The bonus points initiative (BPI) was introduced in 2012 to incentivise the study of higher-level mathematics and with the long-term goal of improving students’ mathematical capabilities. Since its ...

The awarding of bonus points to students who achieve a pass or more in Higher Level Maths has had unintended negative consequences and should be re-assessed, a new study has found. The study was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government is to cut back a hugely successful programme designed to encourage teenagers to take up ...

Finally, after five years of changing approaches to exams and grading, this is it. This is the year that A-level grades across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are back, more or less, to where they ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s top universities have boosted their intake of domestic students due to “uncertainty” over ...