The government has said it expects all secondary school students in England to master the basics of English and maths. So its new test of school performance will be the percentage attaining at least ...

National curriculum exams should be scrapped in favour of new functional skills tests, a teachers' leader has said. Dr John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders ...

The functional skills teenagers in England will need to get a grade C in maths and English GCSEs have been published for consultation. The move is in response to employers' complaints that even ...