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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