Some of the brightest girls doing AS-level physics drop the subject without taking the full A-level, say teachers. A teacher-run study is canvassing this year's students' attitudes to the subject and ...

Beginning in the early 19th century, a series of reforms transformed Cambridge University, which had become a mathematical backwater in the 18th century, into a pre-eminent centre for mathematical ...

A-level pass rates have fallen for the first time since 1982 but a schoolboy from Lancashire has bucked the trend by getting five A* grades – each with 100 per cent pass mark. Asanish Kalyanasundaram, ...