GCSEs

Exams and results day can be an anxiety-inducing time for many young people (Image: National World/Adobe Stock/Getty)

Four out of five young people say exams 'harmed their mental health'

Did Kate Middleton get better GCSE results than Prince William and Prince Harry?

Royal GCSE Results: Did Kate Middleton do better than Prince William?

Students who sat their GCSEs are getting their results today (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

How to find out how close you were to a higher GCSE grade

Results day can be a nerve-wracking time for GCSE candidates (Photo: Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Girls continue to dominate GCSEs but top grades dip - full breakdown

GCSE results day for 2024 is here (File photo: Pete Summers/Getty Images)

What pupils and families should expect on GCSE results day

For many secondary school students, university offers will be dependent on their exam results (Photo: National World/Adobe Stock/Getty)

When secondary school pupils will get their exam results across the UK

Luke Littler celebrates with the trophy after victory in the BetMGM Premier League final against Luke Humphries at The O2 in London

Teenage darts sensation Luke Littler seals Premier League crown

Child poverty report says about one in five children in Northern Ireland living in poverty.

Around one in five children in Northern Ireland living in poverty says report

NHS nurse Kelly Foster, who failed her GCSEs

Woman becomes high ranking senior NHS nurse despite failing GCSEs

As thousands of Northern Ireland students receive their A-Level results today, one of IKEA’s senior business leaders, Aaron Smith, market manager (store manager), Belfast shares his thoughts on why A-Level results don’t define the future for everyone

IKEA Belfast manager: Why A-Level results don’t define the future for everyone

Pupils at Hazelwood Integrated College in in North Belfast pictured after receiving A-level results in Northern Ireland.Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Top A-level grades fall in Northern Ireland but remain above pre-pandemic levels

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?

Laura Monaghan from Ballymoney after her graduation at the University of Ulster

UU student Lauren defies odds to graduate after rare brain tumour

Keira Aiken, 15, a pupil at Belfast High School, who has written and composed Bully – A New Musical

NI schoolgirl brings children’s book about bullying to the stage

Leah Tylor from Feeny is backing an initiative to provide more training to school counsellors for blind and visually-impaired children and young people

Visually-impaired Co Londonderry woman welcomes training for school counsellors

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) General Secretary Pat Cullen joins members of the RCN on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria

Who is Pat Cullen? The RCN leader who led the biggest-ever walkout of nurses
The Royal College of Nursing’s general secretary Pat Cullen has said nursing is in her blood.
Gemma Murray

The coffin of 15-year-old Matthew McCallan is taken from St Malachy's Church, Edendork following his funeral.

Matthew McCallan funeral told of 'a very happy young boy'

In Pictures: GCSE Northern Ireland photo round-up

Young Belfast barber’s advice to GCSE students – aim to be a cut above

Antony, Wren, Ashley and Taz

Red Rose thriller of how an app could turn ‘bad’

Portadown lawn bowler Chloe Wilson

Chloe Wilson feels Team NI can bowl them over at Commonwealth Games

Unite members staged a picket outside Glenveagh Special School in Belfast last month.
Picture: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Council worker strikes could resume if talks break down: Unite

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

A mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol and arrived at the train station in Lviv, western Ukraine (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Sandra Chapman on war in Ukraine

Aaminah , Sade, Callum, Kaira, Jack, Grace

Sixteen: Class of 2021 goes back to the books

Jodie Gourley.

Community raising funds for Newtownabbey teen’s wheelchair

Education Minister Peter Weir

IN FULL: NI Education Minister Peter Weir outlines alternative arrangements for ...
Education Minister Peter Weir has announced the methods for grading this year’s A-levels, GCSEs and other qualifications in the absence of exams.
Niall Deeney

School exams

GCSE and A Level students to find out how exams will be awarded this morning

Tobermore has launched an exciting new Apprenticeship Scheme

School leavers invited to ‘be more at Tobermore’

News Letter editorial

Cancellation of AQE test is not a surprise but will have long term consequences

The mechanism to award A-level and GCSE grades in Northern Ireland has yet to be announced following the cancellation of this year’s exams

NI A-level and GCSE students seek 'clarity' on grades after exams cancelled

Paramedics and ambulances at the Mater Hospital in Dublin as the head of the Health Service Executive Paul Reid has said the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has surpassed the peak of the first wave.

Massive Covid-19 spike in ROI as 7,836 new infections detected in 24 hours

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

Parliament Buildings Stormont

Stormont meeting again today to try to clarify exam situation for students

Stormont Education Minister Peter Weir.

Education Minister Peter Weir stops short of ruling out cancelling all NI 2021 s...

Ronan Mongan with some of the many trophies he has won for boxing.

Ronan (16) hired as apprentice after online Facebook post goes viral

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...

News Letter editorial

Peter Weir is right to hold firm on school award grading system

Science Shop Winners Celebrate at Ulster University
The Science Shop Student Awards took place at Ulster University's Belfast campus today. Celebrating 27 years of a strong partnership between Ulster University and Queen's University, the Science Shop aims to link students degree relevant experience to the needs of local communities.
Ulster University's first prize went to Communication with Counselling student Aine McKay who worked with the Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke Association. Its second award went to Environmental Sciences student Ciara McDaid who worked in partnership with Lisnaskea's Share Village.
Queen's University joint winners Larissa Sherwood, a sociology student, and Modh Fikri Badrul Hisham, a Mechanical Engineering student, worked with the Forum for Action on Substance Abuse and the Servite Trust respectively.
Both Universities have each made a ?1,000 prize fund available which will now be shared by the winners.
Pictured is Ulster University winner Ms Aine McKay, along with Ms Fi

Boys’ educational prospects in Northern Ireland ‘damaged by class divide’

An empty classroom

Pupils could be taught in ‘protective bubbles’ in NI schools

PACEMAKER BELFAST 19/03/2020
Education Minister Peter Weir gives todays Covid 19 update to the media at Stormont. It comes as it was announced that Northern Ireland suffered its first Coronavirus death this morning. The patient was an elderly male who had underlying health problems and was being treated in a greater Belfast Hospital.
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No extra money for schools’ phased return, says Minister Peter Weir

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

Education

Exam contingency plans being looked at amid Covid-19 outbreak

Ellie McDonnell at the Air Ambulance NI base with HEMS Paramedics Emma Boylan and Mike Patton, and HEMS Dr. Campbell Brown.

Co Down teenager: Air Ambulance staff saved my life after quad bike crash

Ann McCann, Eating Disorder Assocation NI

More NI children with anorexia

Is a free Nando's just what you're needing on results day? (Photo: Nando's)

Free Nando’s up for grabs for students today for A-Levels results day - this is ...

ETI chief inspector Noelle Buick. Picture: Andrew Towe/Parkway Photography Ltd/PA Wire

'˜Alarming' rise in primary school suspensions at Ulster schools

Tony Wright

Tony Wright sings us chapter and verse at the MAC

There is a global shortage of pilots - here's how you can become one

Craigavon Senior High School, Lurgan Campus. INLM39-221.

Senior High results well below NI average

Some pupils sitting GCSEs in Northern Ireland have the reading age of a 13-year-old, a survey says.

Some GCSE pupils have a reading age of 13, survey says

Jonathan Rea and family. Pics by GeeBee Images

BIG INTERVIEW: Jonathan Rea - '˜sport was all I thought about growing up'

Spring is in the air for Rare Breed farmers

Eddie, aged 13, on Ballyholme Beach in 1965, before he was 'stretched'

Belfast man remembers NI's polio epidemic, 60 years on