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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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Scottish secondary teachers ‘ready to boycott’ 2024 exams

Reversion to pre-Covid coursework and exams described as 'a bad news story for all secondary school teachers and the young people they teach'

Keegan: ‘I know heads care deeply about pupils’

Education secretary issued plea to school leaders in an email last night, setting out how its new teacher pay offer would be funded

Sats 2023: League table return ‘wrong’ amid catch-up efforts

Teachers should be able to focus on lost learning support without accountability ‘looming’ over them, say primary school leaders

Check homework policy for AI risk, DfE advises schools

Four key points for schools from the government's latest advice on artificial intelligence in education

Former teacher Jenny Gilruth is Scotland’s new education secretary

Shirley-Anne Somerville replaced as Humza Yousaf appoints his first cabinet, a day after becoming first minister

Covid modifications to end next year for ‘most’ SQA qualifications

Coursework and exams for practical subjects – which were removed in response to the Covid pandemic – will return next year, says SQA, but move is criticised by teaching union

Why all teachers must ‘get better at asking good questions’

If teachers want their students to learn they need to make them think – and the best way to do that is through carefully designed questions, says this Scottish headteacher

7 in 10 pupils on universal credit not eligible for free school meals

New report says extending free meals to all primary and secondary pupils whose families are on universal credit would benefit poorer pupils but bring spending up to £2.5 billion a year

Keegan: AI ‘could cut time-draining teacher tasks’

The education secretary will make the comments at the BETT show in London today

Pay offer ‘worst possible’ outcome for schools

School leaders have warned of more cuts ahead after the government confirmed schools would be expected to meet most of the increase from existing budgets

Coursework should be completed under ‘direct supervision’ amid AI fears

Schools should make students aware of the 'risk' of the use of artificial intelligence to complete coursework, says the JCQ

Concern over inspections of special schools, MPs told

Special schools not always getting specialist Ofsted inspectors, cross-party Education Committee is told

Heads to consider industrial action in response to pay deal

The NAHT school leaders' union has broken its silence on the government's pay offer, calling it 'inadequate'

NEU: We don’t want to disrupt exams

If members reject new government pay offer, two further days of strike action will be planned next term, says union

School buildings cash too little to fix ‘shameful neglect’, DfE told

DfE funding announcement comes after school buildings have been left 'on the point of collapse', warns heads' union

7 ways the DfE wants to strengthen MATs

Government launches plan aimed at growing 'high-quality' academy trusts and making the MAT system more transparent

Reject ‘insulting’ pay offer, NEU urges members

The DfE has offered teachers a £1,000 one-off payment for 2022-23 and a 4.5 per cent average pay rise next year

Teacher pay talks: DfE makes offer to unions

The latest talks between the government and education unions have ended with a pay offer for teachers

What will Humza Yousaf mean for education in Scotland?

With the announcement that Humza Yousaf will replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's first minister, teachers and school leaders will be keen to find out whether he makes education as big a priority as his predecessor did

Schools should be ‘specifically excluded’ as strip-search location

The recommendation has been made in a report from the children's commissioner

School leaders in Wales vote to reject pay offer

NAHT Cymru ballot result comes a day after teacher-members of the NEU called off their strike action over pay by voting to accept latest offer from Welsh government

Ofsted crisis: What happens next?

School inspection grades were already being questioned before this week's outcry following the death of headteacher Ruth Perry

Teacher pay: Call to raise £30k starting salary

Education and workforce experts warn rising costs have 'watered down' the competitiveness of £30k starting salary for teachers since announced in 2019

Swinney was ‘incredibly close’ to resigning over 2020 exams fiasco

Nicola Sturgeon ‘wouldn’t countenance’ my offers to quit government, says former education secretary John Swinney