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Today we have published the approval criteria for GCSE English Language (Post-16)

Qualifications Manager Andrew Shipway outlines our proposals for reforming the Essential Skills Wales application of number qualifications.

Senior Qualifications Manager Oliver Stacey details our proposals for reforming the Essential Skills Wales communication qualifications.

Qualifications Manager Nathan Evans introduces our proposals for the new Essential Skills Wales digital skills qualifications.

Congratulations to learners across Wales who are receiving their GCSE results today for exams taken in November 2025.

Looking back on the last academic year, our achievements and activities

Andrew Shipway, Qualifications Manager, discusses the new Level 2 Additional Mathematics qualification and what learners and teachers need to know.

Nathan Evans, Qualifications Manager, troubleshoots the new digital technology GCSE ahead of first teaching in September 2026.

Nathan Evans, Qualifications Manager, deconstructs the new design and technology GCSE coming to schools and colleges in September 2026.

Tom Croke, Qualifications Manager, considers the flexibility of the new physical education and health GCSE and what teachers and learners can expect from the new qualification.

Tom Croke, Qualifications Manager, takes a look at how existing single and double award qualifications have been brought together into a brand new GCSE in health and social care, and...

Oliver Stacey, Senior Qualifications Manager, explains what ‘broadly similar outcomes’ mean for the new GCSEs.