Coursework for GCSE mathematics is to be axed in a package of measures to stamp out cheating and plagiarism, the exam regulatory body confirmed on Friday.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

Today, during my college algebra class, I was forced to deal with a small contingent of students that were being typical college freshmen, begging me...