GCSE

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels Researchers from the universities of York and Leeds have found that General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results have a significant impact on many elements of life at 23 years-old, predicting factors such as whether an individual had a prestigious job and a good income as well as their level of well-being, and if they had any behavioral problems. …

Percentage of young people and parents reporting high psychological distress, by food bank usage and rent/mortgage arrears. Notes: Food bank usage analysis: N = 7,800. Housing payments analysis: N = 6,874. The analysis is weighted for survey design and young person and main parent non-response. Only households where we have GHQ data for both the young person and a parent are included. Credit: Financial Inequalities and the Pandemic (2023).…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain No clear relationship exists between GCSE test anxiety and exam performance among Year 11 pupils, a UCL study has found. Published today in the…