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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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DfE axes National Leaders of Governance scheme

The government will not be extending reviews programme for schools and trusts with 'weak' governance beyond October this year

Walker: Drop GCSE resits rule to boost ‘maths to 18’ plan

Former schools minister Robin Walker questions the value of pupils failing repeated resits of GCSE maths

Heads urged to take down Ofsted banners at schools

NAHT president-elect Simon Kidwell will tell the union's conference that schools should take action to put Ofsted 'back in its box'

Heads and teachers to plan for joint strikes

Plan revealed after the NAHT school leaders' union announces re-ballot of members on strike action over pay, funding, workload and wellbeing

Welsh schools: ‘Experienced staff are struggling and new staff are drowning’

The new curriculum began being introduced in Welsh schools in September – but it’s not just curricular reform piling the pressure on the country’s teachers

Weekly round-up: Teacher strike and Ofsted inquiry

This week’s essential education news and analysis includes the teacher pay dispute and Thursday's strike action, the launch of an inquiry into Ofsted inspections and a worrying drop in ITT applications

Sats 2023: Cutting lost papers ‘key priority’ this year, says STA

School leaders warn the problems with last year's key stage 2 Sats 'must not be allowed to be repeated' as STA publishes report less than two weeks before this year's tests

DfE raises secondary ITT target by 26%

The government has estimated that 26,360 postgraduate initial teacher training secondary trainees will need to start their training in the 2023-24 academic year

Parents’ support for teacher strike softens

Majority of parents still support the NEU teaching union strike, but opposition to the action has increased since February

Ofsted MAT checks: 7 key findings

Ofsted resumed its summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts a year ago. Here is everything you need to know about its findings since then

Plan for ‘a range’ of teacher pay levels, schools told

DfE tells heads they should budget for all possible pay review body outcomes after its pay offer was rejected by all four unions and ahead of further teacher strikes tomorrow

Scottish students not ready for return to pre-Covid assessment, say teachers

Nine in 10 secondary teachers disagree with the Scottish Qualifications Authority decision to reinstate coursework and exams in practical subjects next year

CEO of one of country’s largest MATs to stand down

Oasis Community Learning chief executive John Murphy is to stand down after nine years in post

NI teachers and civil servants in biggest industrial action for a decade

Strike action in Northern Ireland takes place a day after it emerged that no new school buildings or school extensions would be started in 2023-24 as a result of education cuts

AI ‘threat’ sparks SQA reminder of ‘serious’ penalties for plagiarism

The Scottish Qualifications Authority has asked schools to remind students about ‘the potential consequences of submitting work that isn’t their own’ – including that they could fail the course

Falling rolls fund will open to schools with lower Ofsted grades

DfE funding rule change aims to help schools hit by falling pupil numbers due to the decline in the birth rate

Two-thirds of heads ‘have to cut teaching assistants’

More schools are using pupil premium to plug funding gaps than at any point since polling began six years ago

Strikes: MATs leader urges DfE to resume pay talks

Confederation of School Trusts' chief calls on the government to return to the negotiating table on teacher pay, ahead of scheduled strikes

Help pupils choose harder books, teachers urged

Pupils read more books due to social media trends like 'BookTok' but are not choosing challenging texts, report finds

Ofsted: No MAT inspection leaves DfE in the dark

The fact that multi-academy trusts are not being inspected means they are not being held fully 'accountable' or receiving enough 'credit' for their work, warns Ofsted

Scotland’s next children’s commissioner to be appointed

Nicola Killean, the Big Noise music project boss who began her career as a nursery teacher, is to take over from Bruce Adamson next month

Inquiry will ‘rigorously investigate’ Ofsted inspection system

A new inquiry, chaired by a former schools minister, will look at ways to make school inspections 'fairer' amid controversy over Ofsted's approach

What makes a ‘quality’ MAT, according to DfE

Government sets out more details on how it will decide which multi-academy trusts will be given the green light to expand

How close is Scotland to meeting target for minority-ethnic teachers?

New data shows 4% aim for teachers in Scotland identifying as minority ethnic is 'highly ambitious' at current rate of progress