In 2025, more young people than ever have opened their A-level results to find out how they did in their maths exam. Once again, maths has been the most popular A-level subject, with 112,138 entries ...

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 ...

In 2025, more young people than ever have opened their A-level results to find out how they did in their maths exam. Once again, maths has been the most popular A-level subject, with 112,138 entries ...

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 ...

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 ...

There has been a fall in the number of A-level entries in Northern Ireland awarded top A* and A grades in 2024. That was widely expected as grades returned to pre-pandemic levels. About 30.3% of ...

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 ...