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High school pupils sitting exam.

Councillors given overview of this year’s examination performance in Herts

Longdean School students celebrating their exam success

Hemel Hempstead students celebrate 'great' GCSE success

Many of the GCSE pupils will go on to the school's Sixth Form.

GCSE results joy for The Hemel Hempstead School's class of '23

Pupils celebrate at Tring School. Image submitted.

Pupils at Tring School celebrating ‘excellent’ set of GCSE exam results

Here’s what you can do if you fail your GCSE exams. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

How to resit your GCSE exams if you fail

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

Abby Aldridge shares her apprenticeship story

Radlett apprentice tells her apprenticeship story ahead of A-Level and GCSE resu...

Students are gearing up for GCSE exams

Quiz: Can you answer these GCSE maths questions

Students at The Hemel Hempstead School collect their results

Dacorum schools celebrate as students collect their exam results

Nandos is giving out free food to students

Nando’s is giving away free food to students on results day this month

These are the areas with the smartest students in England

Do you think you are intelligent? SudokuCraze thinks you are.

Hertfordshire named as one of England’s brainiest areas

First News: A beary good idea!

Sir Mike Penning MP with local BSL campaigner Zahra Khaira in Parliament Square last Friday

MP backs bill to make British Sign Language an official language of the UK

Phil and Evie have raised over £800 for Age UK

Hemel Hempstead father and daughter's Christmas single raises hundreds for Age U...

Phil and Evie wrote and recorded the song 'Christmas Crackers' themselves

Hemel Hempstead father and daughter release Christmas single to spread festive c...

Students can choose A-Level and GCSE exam topics next year - Ofqual and educatio...

Students celebrate 'excellent' GCSE results (C) Tring School

GCSE results: Students at Tring School celebrate 'excellent' results

A number of big restaurant chains - including Nando’s - are offering free food deals to A Level and GCSE students this week (Photos: Getty Images/Flickr)

Where to get free food on GCSE results day 2021 - including Nando’s, Las Iguanas...

The students with Madison's winning design

Tring student's creative design wins MINI Roof Design Competition

MPs say terms like “white privilege” may have contributed towards neglect of poorer white pupils (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poorer white pupils suffer years of neglect due to terms like ‘white privilege’,...

GCSE and A Level grades will be decided by teachers this year, exams watchdog Ofqual has announced (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE and A Level results will be decided by teachers this year - despite 2020's ...

Longdean School wins £50,000 grant to boost creative subjects with the latest technology

Hemel school wins £50,000 grant to boost creative subjects with the latest techn...

GCSE, A Levels and SATs exams in England will be replaced by teacher assessments...

'Alternative arrangements’ will be made for GCSE and A Level exams this year - w...

GCSE and A Level exams will be adapted in 2021 to help students - including adva...

Child abuse has increased during lockdown - and neglected kids are being impacte...

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Poorer GCSE pupils in Hertfordshire more than a year behind richer classmates
Disadvantaged secondary school pupils in Hertfordshire are more than a year behind their better-off peers, new research reveals.

An image of the two schools - Berkhamsted Boys and Berkhamsted Girls

GCSEs: Students at Berkhamsted School celebrate their results

Ashlyns School

Students at Ashlyns School celebrate their GCSE grades

Students at The Hemel Hempstead School are celebrating their GCSE results

Students at The Hemel Hempstead School celebrate GCSE results

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

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

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

Pupils will be able to use their mock exam results as the basis for an appeal (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is how to appeal your GCSE and A level results

Grades will be decided in a different way this year due to cancelled exams (Photo: Shutterstock)

A Level students will not be awarded final grades lower than their mock exam res...

This year's grades have been marked differently due to school closures caused by the pandemic. (Shuttertsock)

Students unable to appeal exam results this year are being handed a ‘life senten...

Exams across the UK were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning grades this year have been calculated in a different way (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s when GCSE results will be out in England - and how to collect grades

The tool features three to five minute revision videos presented in a Netflix-style layout (Photo: Shutterstock)

GCSE students can access a free learning resource while schools are closed - her...

Should schools be fined over GCSEs?

Schools ‘should be fined’ if pupils fail to meet key GCSE targets

Hemel Hempstead Town will compete in either the Vanarama National League or the Vanarama National League South next season. Picture (c) Sean Hinks

Youngsters encouraged to sign up for second Hemel Town FC academy open night

Catherine Stoker

Education Eye: Beware school league tables

Catherine Stoker

Education Eye: Crucial that subjects play to your strengths

Ashlyns School students celebrate a cracking set of GCSE results

Well done again, Dacorum students! This week, you’ve done really well in your GC...

Last week's A-Level results in Hemel Hempstead

It’s our turn now! Will GCSE pupils echo last week’s A Level success?