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The SQA investigated the drop in the Higher history pass rate this year because, as both the awarding body and regulator, it was its job – but should it be?

Curriculum and assessment review could set target of ensuring parents can compare school performance on ‘any measure’, says United Learning boss Sir Jon Coles

SQA highlights improvements across most measures, but admits there’s ‘work to be done’ in ‘resetting’ relationships with teachers as it prepares to change into Qualifications Scotland

Most primary and secondary pupils are hitting the expected level or better for their age and stage in literacy and numeracy, with Scottish government highlighting marginal gains

A struggling school’s problems are often down to a focus on the wrong things, says secondary headteacher Bruce Robertson

Three years after the Year 4 times tables assessment became statutory, the results from the test continue to improve. So how are schools achieving this, and is it really making pupils better at maths? Ellen Peirson-Hagger reports

While the disadvantage gap index has slightly narrowed, the gap for achieving grade 5 in English, maths and Attainment 8 has widened

New School Leaders Scotland president Pauline Walker tells Emma Seith about why Highers aren’t everything, how to deal with vaping and mobile phones and why she would never swap being a headteacher for a lucrative tech career

Geometry, reasoning and low attainers need greater attention within schools to help drive England’s international performance in maths even higher, says David Thomas

Education secretary describes review as a ‘rigorous report’, saying she has full confidence in it – and the SQA

Exam board says it now expects to offer digital exams ‘within the next few years’ as international schools’ use of digital papers for GCSE and A level soars

Results from the first cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study since the pandemic reflects England’s schools’ commitment to recovery, says DfE