GCSEs

Hampshire County Council is encouraging families to do all they can to support regular school attendance for their children.

'More important than ever for children to be regularly attending school’

Cllr Horton with Sam Hargreaves, Khiara-Chinae De’ath and Hashim Saleh

Admiral Lord Nelson School's delight over GCSE results

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

Alan Mak MP organised the meeting local headteachers and Schools Minister Nick Gibb

Alan Mak MP welcomes Schools Minister Nick Gibb to Headteachers’ Forum at Haylin...

Everything you need to know about the A-level and GCSE ahead of the result days in August. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

A-level & GCSEs result days 2023 - what are the dates?

A prom photo taken by Johanna Elizabeth

Photographer sets up prom portrait service to help raise money for charity

Jess Crook volunteering with the Tall Ships Youth Trust

Bricklaying apprentice Jess overcomes adversity to ‘build’ strong career

A close-up view of a piece of paper showing someone's GCSE results

One in 10 of Portsmouth's workforce has zero qualifications

Children going to secondary school in September will find out which school they will be going to this week

Secondary school offers 2023: How to submit an appeal

Leigh Madden (in yellow beanie) and friends. Striking teachers at the National Education Union rally in Guildhall Square, Portsmouth
Picture: Chris Moorhouse (jpns 010223-46)

Teacher strikes: Why can schools not tell me if they will close?

SAS: Who Dares Wins’ star Jason Fox, brings his Life At The Limit tour to Portsmouth Guildhall on February 9, 2023. Picture by Hal Shinnie

SAS: Who Dares Wins star is bringing ‘No holds barred’ tour to Portsmouth

Would you like a career and the chance to learn as well?

Ad Feature Deadline for apprenticeship applications at BAE Systems in Portsmouth

Joanne McGee (49) from Southsea, has written a book on her life.

Picture: Sarah Standing (260123-8806)

First time author from Southsea turned her pain into power

Pupils picked up their GCSE results at Portsmouth Academy in Portsmouth, on Thursday, August 25, 2022.

Pictured is: Sophia Reid (16) from Portsmouth, who got four 9s, two 8s, one 7, two 6s and one 5.

Picture: Sarah Standing (250822-2120)

Pupils celebrate GCSEs but admit ‘terror’ at taking exams after Covid

Smiles all around as this pupil picks up her grades at Fareham Academy

Fareham Academy celebrates achieving its 'best ever' set of GCSE results

Students at Crookhorn College, Waterlooville, waiting to collect their GCSE results. Picture: Sophie Lewis.

Portsmouth GCSE results day live
PUPILS from across the Portsmouth area are lining up to find out their GCSE results.

Students congratulate each other receiving their GCSE results. Photo: PA

GCSE grades down from 2021 record high, but remain above pre-pandemic levels

Hannah Draper with some of her students at Gosport’s Adult Community College

Free adult college course saved student from mental health struggles

Mary Maguire, Head of St John's College

'Heartbreak' as governors decide to close 114-year-old college in Southsea

These are the top 20 most stressful things about parenting a teenager

Lucy, 19 from Basingstoke, with her dog Bonnie. Picture: Hampshire County Council

Foster care 'changed my life'

Daniel Roper, Year 11 at Priory School. Picture: David George

Year 11s 'feeling very downbeat' over GCSEs

Editor of The News Mark Waldron
Picture: Habibur Rahman

Aspiring journalists encouraged to apply for community reporter role at The News

Headteacher Julie Summerfield with two students receiving their GCSE results

‘Determined’ students overcome Covid difficulties for GCSE success

The first T Level year group at Fareham College

Fareham College students on new course celebrate T Level success

Pictured is Hayden Newman, 14, at his home in Cosham.

Picture: Sam Stephenson

Portsmouth schoolboy with painful foot condition asks for remote lessons to cont...

The BBC will broadcast school lessons on TV during lockdown - here’s when and wh...

Should his wife support his golf club ambitions? Picture: Shutterstock

My husband’s golfing friends are making me miserable | Advice column

Twins Martin and Wendy Lloyd have just become head boy and head girl at Horndean Technology College.

Picture: Sarah Standing (280920-7273)

Talented twins elected head boy and girl at Hampshire school

More than 4,000 students in Hampshire received free laptops during lockdown

4,000 Hampshire students given free laptops during lockdown

Research found that disadvantaged pupils were on average 18 months behind their wealthier peers (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poorer school pupils in England are 18 months behind their better off classmates...

Russell Brand sends video message to Gosport school

The exam board is regrading all of the results (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why BTec results have been delayed - and how grades will be calculated

Education secretary Gavin Williamson. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA

Education secretary says sorry for exam results shambles

Ofqual is reviewing its process for appeals (Photo: Shutterstock)

Ofqual has suspended its criteria for pupils wanting to appeal their A levels an...

INEOS Team UK have donated £10,000 to support disadvantaged children at Ark Charter Academy.

INEOS Team UK helps to close the gap

Year 10 pupils returning to The Cowplain School have been talking about life in lockdown.

'Glad to be back' - pupils talk about life in lockdown and returning to school

Portsmouth High School girls in their prom dresses at Southsea Rose Gardens. From left, Alexandra Cells, 16, Madeleine Oliver, 16, Lauren Sutton, 15, Eleanor Palmer, 16, and Thalia Burke, 16

Girls shall go to the ball at socially distanced garden prom

COMMENT: Exam boards need to find a workable solution

Park Community School headteacher, Chris Anders, is proposing reducing option subjects being taught to current Year 10 students from four to two to compensate for lost learning time.

Picture: Sarah Standing

Hampshire headteachers’ GCSE concerns for returning pupils

LONDON, ENGLAND - In this handout image provided by No 10 Downing Street, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson records a televised message to the nation released on May 10, 2020 in London, England. The Prime Minister announced the next stage in easing lockdown measures intended to curb the spread of Covid-19. (Photo by No 10 Downing Street via Getty Images)

Readers react to prime minister's national address

WORTH SAVING: Life would be unimaginable without pubs such as The Glencoe at Gosport.

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St Vincent College's Transition and Progression Manager Alistair Lambon talks to students

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Disadvantaged children are to be given free laptops and 4G internet connections as part of a new government scheme (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is who is eligible to get free laptops for home schooling - and how to appl...

This is when pupils in the UK could return to school as coronavirus pandemic con...

This season's crop of Pompey Academy scholars. Picture: Colin Farmery/ Portsmouth FC

Coronavirus: how it may impact Pompey Academy's next intake of scholars

Bay House School is celebrating its best ever GCSE progress results since the introduction of the new grading system.

Picture: Keith Woodland

Bay House School’s top marks for pupil progress

Lewis Walsh wants to make a film after being inspired by the book Looking for Alaska. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (142564-4)

Hayling would-be Spielberg set to make own film