We don't know what education is and, as a consequence, we do not know what debate means. Debate is at the heart of education and if there is a crisis about one there is a crisis about the other.

Details of a new examination regime to replace GCSEs are to be announced in the biggest overhaul of secondary school testing for a generation. Educ...

There was joy on Thursday for pupils who secured high grades in a school affected by last year's London riots, with one declaring: "We've beaten the s...

Panicked teachers have voiced their concerns GCSE English exams were marked too harshly this year after schools reported an unprecedented number of fa...

GCSEs bear no relevance to real life and need a drastic overhaul, students have told the Huffington Post UK. While the argument over O-levels or GC...

The Ofsted chief inspector is against radical reforms that would see less able pupils sit simpler qualifications or take papers later on, it was repor...

Michael Gove has appeared to soften his position on radical reforms that would see the return of O-levels and CSEs after an outcry over the proposals....

Let's be frank, most businesses aren't looking for new starters who have an A* GCSE in 'global citizenship'. They need work ready employees who can write a properly punctuated sentence, free from spelling mistakes, and one who's mentally able to work out a simple maths problem.

Labour will attempt to ramp up pressure on the coalition by calling on Liberal Democrats to join them in condemning proposals to reintroduce O-levels ...

A major coalition row was brewing on Thursday afternoon after Lib Dem MPs expressed outrage over Michael Gove's plans to scrap GCSEs and replace with ...

I quibble with Gove over his quintessentially Conservative fondness for reinvention. In truth, I see no reason why GCSEs should be replaced by O-levels. Why not just make GCSEs tougher? A name means nothing.

What does Gove want us back to? He wants young people today to get bogged down in minutiae of detail and take their eye off the goal. He wants worker drones with no sense of their own capabilities and intelligence. He doesn't want people to solve problems, he wants clerks to write down sums in a book, perhaps to help balance the national deficit.

UPDATE: Michael Gove all but confirms plans to scrap GCSEs in favour of O-levels GCSEs are to be scrapped and replaced by their predecessor, the "t...