Coursework for GCSE mathematics is to be axed in England, the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced. All other GCSE coursework would have to be supervised, Mr Johnson told the Labour party ...

Coursework was overhauled in most GCSE subjects in 2009 amid widespread concerns over cheating. Pupils are now required to complete projects in class under exam–style conditions. Controlled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coursework will not count towards final GCSE computer science grades over the next two years, England’s exams regulator has confirmed. The move comes amid concerns about widespread cheating in ...

An exam board has said GCSE students have 'too many exams' and has called for more coursework instead. OCR said the big focus on testing leads to a 'narrow range of learning' because schools are ...

PUPILS are to be banned from doing GCSE coursework at home amid fears of ... by "controlled assessment", where pupils will do projects under supervision in class, the Qualifications and Curriculum ...

The Tories would scrap coursework for most GCSE and A-level subjects ... by requiring pupils to complete projects under teachers' supervision, do not go far enough, Mr Gove added.

THE headteacher of a top private school in Suffolk has called for changes to the GCSE ... rationalise coursework, perhaps by focussing it into one great pass/fail cross-curricular project, then ...

Hundreds of pupils in Northern Ireland will have their GCSE computer science coursework marks revoked after details of the task were leaked online. The decision has been taken by the exams ...