Tag Archives: GCSE

NHS offers apprentice routes into healthcare for GCSE pupils

Posted on August 25, 2022 by insidecroydon

Thousands of pupils across Croydon have received their GCSE results today, marking the first major set of qualifications that will put them on the path to a future career. NHS England wants to encourage many of them to consider a … Continue reading →

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Government made it easier for rich kids to make the grade

Posted on August 16, 2021 by insidecroydon

Last week’s covid-hit A level and GCSE results demonstrate huge disparities in our schools, particularly in Croydon, writes KEN TOWL Can we please stop talking about grade inflation? Sure, when the examination results were announced last week, at A level, … Continue reading →

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GCSE figures put Croydon schools at bottom of their class

Posted on January 27, 2014 by insidecroydon

Last week, the Department for Education published the 2013 statistics for GCSE pupils across the country. As Inside Croydon has already reported, based on these results, not a single Croydon state secondary managed to make it into the top 200 … Continue reading →

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Council fails to do its homework on Croydon GCSE results

Posted on August 27, 2013 by insidecroydon

So how did Croydon’s pupils do in their GCSEs this year? Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE gives Croydon Council an “F” for its efforts in failing to release full results for local schools, when Sutton and other boroughs provided that … Continue reading →

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How you can tell which schools are really making the grade

Posted on August 11, 2013 by insidecroydon

School pupils – whether attending the borough’s high-profile independents, our state secondaries or the privatised academies – will be receiving their life-shaping GCSE, AS and A level results in the next few weeks. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE provides an insider’s … Continue reading →

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