More than a third of 16-year-olds in Tower Hamlets failed to pass both their English and maths GCSEs this year,

Pupils across Tower Hamlets are celebrating their GCSE results under the new 1-9 grading system.

The headteacher of a Bow Common school has called his students’ results in their GCSE exams an “exceptional achievement”.

An Oaklands School pupil is celebrating picking up nine grade 9s -the highest possible - in her GCSEs.

The executive headteacher of Bishop Challoner has said that he is delighted with the “exceptional results”.

A student from a Bethnal Green School who couldn’t speak a word of Russian a year ago has achieved an A* in the language today.

Pupils across Tower Hamlets receive their GCSE results today.

No coursework, two years of study, a clutch of Bs and a handful of threes - it’s a tricky time to be a GCSE student.

It’s the time of the year that every teenager - and their parents - dread: GCSE exams.

Pupils taking GCSE at George Green’s Secondary visited Canary Wharf to hear from business experts about technological innovation in finance.

An impressive 65 per cent of pupils got five grades of four plus in maths and English at east London’s Langdon Park Secondary in today’s GCSE results.

A new grading system made it tougher for this year’s GCSE pupils for maths and English, with the old ‘star’ lettering system faded out and replaced by a numbering.

With pupils across the country anxiously waiting on their GCSE results, it’s time to put your knowledge to the test.

In just over three weeks time we will see the first cohort of GCSE students decipher a mix of letters and numbers in their results. Here’s our guide to the new numerical grading system and what it means for pupils.

Policy makers must do more to help children in deprived areas whose education suffers during the 170 days a year when the school gates are closed.

Pupils at east London’s Swanlea Secondary in Whitechapel notched up 65 A* grades in their GCSEs and a further 183 at A grade.

One pupil got an astonishing 11 A* grades in her GCSE exams at Bethnal Green Academy in east London.

Exited pupils got many A* and A grades in their GCSE results today at Oaklands Secondary in London’s East End which didn’t quite match last year’s record—but at least kept them in the country’s top 10 per cent.

Any confusion over the change in the way schools’ performances are now assessed with today’s GCSE results hasn’t stopped Bethnal Green’s Morpeth Secondary reaching for the stars.

The new Bow Secondary campus on the banks of the Lea River in east London is flooded in A*s and As in only its second year of GCSE results.

Pupils at Poplar’s Langdon Park Secondary in east London have cocked a snoop at the national GCSE results which have shown a decline in top grades this year.

Another consecutive year of top GCSE results is today’s score-line at Stepney’s Bishop Challoner Schools in east London which have bucked the national declining trend.

A school in the heart of the deprived East End of London has managed a 75 per cent GCSE pass rate in top A*-to-C grades—with a little mentoring help from big business in Canary Wharf and the City.

Students across Tower Hamlets are picking up their GCSE results this morning.

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