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• GCSE results: girls still ahead but gender gap narrows as hundreds of thousands of pupils receive grades – as it happened August 20, 2026
  Nearly a quarter of girls’ entries received one of the higher grades against around a fifth of those from boysAlmost one in four boys in England get top grades in mathsMyles McGinley, managing director of the Cambridge OCR exam board, said more pupils are taking GCSE business studies than in previous years, describing this generation […]
  Taz Ali (now) and Mabel Banfield-Nwachi (earlier)
• GCSE results: almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths August 20, 2026
  Overall results slightly better than last year, with share receiving grades 7, 8 and 9 rising by 0.1 of a percentage point to 23.1%Almost one in four boys in England received top grades in maths while results in English improved across the board, helping to propel improved GCSE results for this year’s cohort of 16-year-olds.The […]
  Richard Adams and Sally Weale
• UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills August 20, 2026
  Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behindA math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math deficiency among students in an op-ed for the San Francisco Standard, admitted to using artificial intelligence to help edit the piece.The […]
  Sophie Sullivan
• Compulsory GCSE resits in England harm teenagers’ mental wellbeing, study finds August 19, 2026
  UCL researchers warn repeated exam attempts may dent students’ confidence and raise risk of dropping outForcing teenagers who fail GCSEs into multiple resits has a negative impact on their mental health, according to research to be published as pupils receive their grades on Thursday.The study by academics at University College London (UCL) compared the mental […]
  Richard Adams Education editor
• Açaí, chipotle and gnocchi – and other words you are probably mispronouncing August 19, 2026
  The English language can seem designed to trip us up, whether we’re greeting a colonel or travelling to Worcestershire. Here are some of the biggest stumbling blocksName: Açaí.Age: First imported to western countries from South America as freeze-dried pulp in the 1990s. Continue reading...
  Guardian Staff
• ‘It’s easy to slip into the negatives’: students on their biggest financial shocks at university August 19, 2026
  From bank accounts to rent and food, students and recent graduates offer advice to those beginning to studyStudent bank accounts: don’t be swayed by freebiesThe best student deals and discountsAn insider’s tips on student moneyWe asked students, and recent graduates, to tell us about the biggest financial shock they had when they started university, and […]
  Kingsley Driscoll
• Pentagon threatens to cut federal funding to 30 universities over foreign academic partnerships August 18, 2026
  Harvard, Stanford and others face directive to review and cut alliances Pentagon deems national security riskThirty US universities could lose federal funding unless they review and cut foreign academic partnerships the Pentagon considers a national security risk within the next two weeks, under a Pentagon directive aimed largely at ties to Chinese institutions.Harvard, the Massachusetts […]
  Joseph Gedeon in Washington
• My son is leaving home for university – and my severe denial has surprised me | Zoe Williams August 17, 2026
  My cherished first-born will soon be off to start a big new phase of his life, shiny saucepans in tow. ‘Empty nesting’ implies this is as nature intended, but it’s knocked me for sixMy son sent me a picture of his university accommodation, which looked perfectly nice, but there was something off about it. It […]
  Zoe Williams