Schoolchildren are to be banned from taking coursework home in a radical bid to crack down on cribbing from the Internet and coaching by pushy parents. Education Secretary Alan Johnson said GCSE maths ...

GCSE coursework might be scrapped amid concerns it is affecting lessons, the exams regulator for England has said. Ofqual chief executive Glenys Stacey says a review of "controlled assessment" - work ...

GCSE students will face tighter controls on coursework and harder exam questions to stop widespread cheating, watchdogs said yesterday. Instead of writing up coursework at home, pupils will complete ...

More students are choosing to study computing at GCSE than PE for the first time since the technology-based subject was introduced. This year, figures showed 81,120 entries for computing, compared ...