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GCSE results 2026: English and maths pass rates down for fifth straight year

This year’s GCSE results also reveal that the regional divide in England in attainment continued to widen while the gender gap narrowed

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Teacher pay: 6.5% rise ‘unlikely’ to make ‘significant difference’

New research report says a full correction on teacher pay would need a 16.5 per cent rise for 2024

Recruitment and retention crisis: 5 things MPs told today

MPs were warned about the challenges of running teaching apprenticeships and the lure of £40k starting salaries into other graduate professions

Teacher strikes: 6 findings on attendance last week

Data from 10,000 schools has been analysed by FFT Education Datalab to assess the impact of two days of strikes last week

Sats results 2023: No rise towards pre-Covid levels

Fewer Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading this year, following controversy over a paper that left pupils 'broken'

DfE extends reading framework to key stage 3

The government has also announced a review of how writing is being taught

Sats 2023: Wait for results for second year ‘beyond belief’

Leaders said they had been 'assured' there would not be a repeat of the same problems this year

Community projects ‘boost teacher wellbeing’

Helping pupils to carry out 'social action' work brings benefits to teachers – but many schools lack time and resources, finds report

Axing private school tax breaks would have ‘weak’ impact on demand

Labour's policy to add VAT to private school fees would bring in £1.6 billion in tax revenues, finds the IFS

Revealed: Scottish school attendance figures for 2022-23

ÌÇÐÄVlog Scotland analysis of weekly attendance snapshots school attendance struggling to recover from Covid pandemic

SQA malpractice cases drop sharply from pre-Covid high

Plagiarism the most common form of 'candidate malpractice', Scottish Qualifications Authority figures show

Strikes: ‘Funded 6.5% pay rise would stop walkouts’

NEU joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted believes the government meeting and funding a 6.5 per cent pay rise could bring an end to industrial action

SEND: ‘Cost-cutting’ deals could push councils to break law, DfE warned

Fears sounded over whether under-pressure local authorities will 'fully comply with their legal duties to children and young people with SEND'

Blair think tank calls for technological transformation

New report suggests a unique, digitalised record for every pupil could be used to tailor lessons and inform school inspection

GCSEs: AI marking is ‘miles away’, says Ofqual boss

Chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton says almost half of students and parents want to see a mix of paper and digital exams in future

Ofsted: Single-word judgements ‘aren’t wrong’, says Spielman

The chief inspector says a 'different government' might want to give the watchdog the remit to work with schools on improvement

DfE relaxes MAT related-party spending deal rules

New Academy Trust handbook has doubled the threshold for deals that need prior government approval from £20,000 to £40,000

Revealed: how the DfE matches MATs with schools

New guidance has revealed how the DfE's regional directors will make decisions about academising and rebrokering schools

Spielman: Don’t use schools as ‘first lever’ for social problems

Ofsted chief inspector will claim worst fears about the pandemic's impact on education are beginning to wane

Starmer promises to raise early years attainment

The Labour leader's major speech on education will include a pledge to get half a million more pupils hitting the EYFS early learning goals by 2030

Public wants government to prioritise SEND, poll finds

More teaching assistants and universal access to free school meals are also seen as priorities, according to Ipsos

Sexual harassment of females a ‘scourge in schools’

Ofsted inspections should investigate levels of abuse of female staff, say MPs in a report published today

7 ways schools can protect pupils from county lines

To help keep young people out of the clutches of county lines gangs, schools should look for signs of vulnerability in primary-age children and keep an eye on exclusion rates, MPs were told today

AI could cut teachers’ workload - but beware ‘commercial hype’

Artificial intelligence may reduce school bureaucracy, but AI will not remove root causes of bureaucracy, says education and digital technology expert

GCSEs: Vulnerable students fall further behind

Progress in narrowing the attainment gap for students in the social care system has been lost since Covid, research warns