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BBC News | Education | UK Edition

  1. Big jump in top GCSE exam grades
    There has been the biggest annual rise since 1990 in the proportion of GCSE exams awarded the best grades.
  2. Results show regional variations
    The first breakdown of results in England's GCSE entries reveals regional differences, with the North East and London doing well.
  3. Languages still slipping at GCSE
    Fewer people are taking modern languages and fewer GCSEs have been taken overall, results from the exam boards show.
  4. Schools keen to pass 30% target
    Many secondary schools will be discovering whether they have beaten a new government GCSE target.
  5. Pushy parents can act as agents
    Parents can now act as agents to handle their children's university applications - and then turn up for the interviews too.

guardian.co.uk Education

  1. Jeffrey Sachs: The digital war on poverty
    Jeffrey Sachs: Thanks to market forces, even the world's poorest people are beginning to benefit from the flow of digital information
  2. Jason Strelitz: Investment in education for the poorest children works
    Jason Strelitz: As today's GCSE results show, money channelled to the poorest children has helped close the attainment gap
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  4. 'Failing school' tries to make the grade
    Jessica Shepherd reports from an "underperforming" school on GCSE results day
  5. GCSE results: Make or break day for named and shamed schools
    National Challenge schools will be closed or turned into academies if they do not improve by 2010