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Durham School, in common with most other schools, offers a varied curriculum at GCSE where students study mathematics, English Language and Literature and science (either the individual physics, chemistry and biology or a double award science course). All students study a core modern foreign language of either French, German or Spanish.
The current department of engineering is the third to be established at Durham University. The first school of engineering in the British Isles was established at Durham in 1837 under the leadership of James Finlay Weir Johnston and Temple Chevallier, taking its first students in January 1838. [1]
Academic results are higher than average, even for the independent sector. Government performance figures show [when?] 98% of students achieving 5 Grade A* - C grades or better in their General Certificates of Secondary Education. [3] In 2022, 62.3% of GCSE entries achieved grade 9-7.
As comprehensive schools gradually replaced secondary modern schools, pupils could increasingly take a mixture of CSEs and O-levels until finally the examinations were merged with the new GCSE certification courses. CSEs and O-levels are the predecessor examinations of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). [4]
They are available in a wide range of academic and applied (work-related) subjects, and as a ‘short-course’ option (equivalent to half a full GCSE). GCSEs are at levels 1 and 2 on the RQF, depending on the grade achieved. The Scottish equivalent of GCSE is the National 5 qualification.
Durham Sixth Form Centre is a mixed sixth form college located in Durham, County Durham, England. [2] It is an academy administered by the Providence Learning Partnership multi-academy trust. The centre is located in Durham city centre, but enrols students from across County Durham, Sunderland and into Northumberland. [3]
Students in 2019 were subjected to more exams and spent longer in the exam hall than their 2016 counterparts. While a GCSE student in 2016 had an average of 18 exams to prepare for, totalling 24 hours and 30 minutes, the average examinee in 2019 sat 22 exams, totalling 33 hours. [53]
The UK Government introduced a new performance indicator called the English Baccalaureate, which measures the percentage of students in a school who achieve 5+ A*-C grades (now five Grades 4 to 9 since the GCSE Reforms) in English, mathematics, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography at GCSE level. [3]