NI GCSE results show improvement across all grades

	Aug 20, 2020

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	Teacher-assessed GCSE results have seen an improvement across all grades in Northern Ireland

	Some 29,000 students in Northern Ireland received results this morning from the locally based examinations body CCEA.

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