A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...

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 ...

Thousands of pupils all over Surrey picked up their GCSE results today (August 21). Just one week after their peers got their A-level grades, it was now the turn of Year 11 pupils to find out how they ...

Thousands of teenagers are opening up their GCSE and BTEC results this morning, with some taking part in a ground-breaking pilot scheme that allows them to access their grades through a mobile app. It ...

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 those exams were aged 17 and older - an all-time high. While some of ...

Linux provides quite a few commands that let you do math on the command line. Which is best depends on the kind of math that you’re doing and the precision that you’re expecting. This post covers five ...

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Londoners are a clever lot. Five of our unis are officially among the best in the world, we have England’s best private school and boast the only state school to be part of the World Leading Schools ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK needs to overhaul its maths curriculum to prepare young people for the growing needs of computing and ...

In this country, mathematics is a loaded subject. Whenever I say I’m a maths teacher, I'll watch the other person’s face change. There is always a reaction. A few of them will be like, “Oh my god, I ...

The GCSE results gap between the south and the rest of England has widened. This year's results reveal London as the highest-performing region, with 72.5% of entries graded as at least 4/C, while the ...