The ability to solve maths picture puzzles, especially when timed, is a good measure of your logical and pattern recognition skills. Solving maths puzzles requires you to be mentally sharp and agile ...

The Home Office and the NHS are also hiring a £139,000-a-year lead doctor and a £134,000-a-year deputy to treat detainees across two sites ILLEGAL migrants awaiting deportation are given private maths ...

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The government will reduce GCSE exam time by up to three hours per student, introduce new Year 8 tests, and teach primary pupils how to identify misinformation under sweeping curriculum reforms. The ...

07:58, Wed, Nov 5, 2025 Updated: 08:03, Wed, Nov 5, 2025 The Government will work to reduce GCSE exam time by two-and-a-half to three hours for the average student, following a curriculum review that ...

Proposals include shortening length of GCSE exams, a new diagnostic test in maths and English, and expanding RE Curriculum ‘should focus less on exams and more on life skills’ The year-long curriculum ...

The Government will work to cut GCSE exam time by two-and-a-half to three hours for the average student, it has announced, after the curriculum review said current exam volume was “excessive”. The ...

No matter how many times I’ve been told (or written about) the importance of a slow run, I cannot translate it into my training. This is not to say I am the fastest runner. My half marathon goal time ...

GCSE resits for English and Maths could be scrapped after the pass rate fell to its lowest level in a decade. The current model requires students who fail these two core subjects at GCSE level to ...

The government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

Teenagers across the country will likely be full of stress as they collect their GCSE results today, a feeling that even the Royal Family will not have been immune from. And while the Royals may have ...

The number of pupils sitting resits this year was at an all-time high For almost a quarter of pupils taking Maths and English GCSEs this year, it wasn't their first rodeo. Some 23.4% of pupils taking ...