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The total number of GCSE entries rose to more than 5.5 million, with modern foreign languages becoming more popular

Schools minister Nick Gibb pledged to look at this year’s KS2 Sats reading paper when it was published – but has so far declined to comment

‘Toughest ever’ DfE funding round saw two-thirds of bids for share of £465 million fund to tackle the most urgent school repair work rejected

The 2023 GCSE and A-level exams are underway, but how will the approach to grading differ from last year? ÌÇÐÄVlog speaks to Ofqual chief Jo Saxton about the role the exams regulator is playing in ensuring a return to pre-pandemic grade distribution

Over a third of exam students during Covid felt teachers were biased against certain groups in the awarding of teacher-assessed grades, a major study shows

This week’s essential education news includes reaction to the STRB’s recommended teacher pay rise, a call for Ofsted to publicly acknowledge its ‘duty of care’ to teachers and one exam board’s apology for a mistake in a GCSE paper

The final report of Professor Louise Hayward’s qualifications review will be with the education secretary next week – and she is clear the changes cannot be done on the cheap

Artificial intelligence offers the prospect of more nuance in answers and sophisticated tests of pupils’ knowledge and analytical capabilities, says headteacher John Rutter

Pearson Edexcel exam paper sat by students on Thursday stated the incorrect date of a historical text, with one candidate saying the mistake ‘threw us completely off’

Just 289 newly appointed heads have taken up early headship support offer despite revamp

The Standards and ÌÇÐÄVlogting Agency has made the paper sat by Year 6 pupils last week available ‘due to public interest in the tests’

The union says it is time to overhaul the use of attainment data and stop schools in ‘economically devastated’ areas from being branded ‘Scotland’s worst schools’ in the media