The executive principle of an Oldham school deemed inadequate by Ofsted is aiming high after the education watchdog commended his leadership.

A special measures college has been criticised by Ofsted for failing to take ‘effective action’ to improve its standards despite languishing well below national averages.

Scrapping ICT GCSE and A Levels for computer science because they are ‘in a similar space’ is like saying ‘stitching footballs and playing football are the same thing’, argues a developement informatics professor.

Oldham schoolchildren are below the national GCSE average and the community must work together to boost their grades, says councillor Shoab Akhtar.

The government has made the controversial move to tighten up GCSEs from September in order to help students prepare for later life.

Manchester Metropolitan University is set to be the UK’s first higher education institution to offer a degree in Urdu.

As the GCSE results gender gap widens, a Manchester education boss is claiming the exams don’t just make boys feel stupid but girls too ‘even when they’re not’.

Following the youth select committee’s report on lowering the voting age to sixteen and introducing a compulsary politics GCSE. Mancunians agree it is time to make a change.

More than 100 schools will be delaying their starting times by one hour to give schoolchildren extra time to sleep in a bid to boost GCSE results.

American classics such as To Kill a Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men were dropped from the GCSE syllabus under new guidelines from Mr Gove.

Vigorous testing and end of year exams occupy children’s minds 24/7, and this coupled with social pressures can causes children to suffer from various health issues