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Three new sixth forms run by Eton and Star Academies in the North and the Midlands, and a new BRIT school in Bradford, get DfE approval

The drop in attendance after the pandemic is a global problem – and schools in this country can’t solve it alone, says former children’s commissioner

The DfE responds to MPs’ claims that it could take a decade to recover the progress in closing the disadvantage gap that was lost during the pandemic

This week’s education news round-up includes analysis and reaction from Thursday’s A-level results

From this year, all children who would be aged 4 when they start school in Scotland are entitled to an extra year of funded nursery – and early figures suggest that parents are taking advantage

The traditional divide between the sciences and the arts in education needs to be bridged if we are to empower our students to solve global challenges, say the presidents of the British Science Association and the British Academy

It is ‘imperative’ that employers understand how A-level grading standards have changed in the years since the pandemic, say heads’ leaders

Children’s commissioner, charities and experts say the inquiry must focus on the lockdown experiences of young people

Whoever wins the next election will have to make some major long-term decisions to guide education’s future, as Loic Menzies explains

The prime minister should apologise to A-level students who miss out on expected grades for ‘refusing to invest in Covid catch-up programmes’ when he was chancellor

Scottish teachers’ professional and personal lives are ‘in turmoil’ due to ‘precarity of employment’, warns EIS boss

Labour accuses the Conservatives of creating ‘the perfect storm’ for schools with both experienced teachers and new recruits leaving the profession