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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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Incentive to improve diversity of Welsh teaching workforce

A total of £5,000 is available to eligible black, Asian or minority ethnic student teachers

Northern Ireland school leaders escalate industrial action

'Nothing is off the table' as headteachers' union considers options in ongoing dispute over pay and conditions

Teacher pay: Welsh strikes on hold in wake of new offer

The teacher pay offer in Wales includes an 11.8 per cent pay rise over two years and a 1.5 per cent one-off payment this year

What are the Scottish Lib Dems’ education priorities?

Education was central to Alex Cole-Hamilton's conference speech in Dundee, including classroom violence, national testing and secure employment for teachers

NEU left out of latest DfE union talks amid strike stalemate

Gillian Keegan is meeting with leaders of NAHT, ASCL and NASUWT but government sources say talks with NEU will only happen if it halts latest teacher strike

Labour plans to replace Ofsted grades

Shadow education secretary to reveal that a Labour government would also introduce an annual review of school safeguarding

GCSEs: Hold coursework ‘exams’ to fight ChatGPT

Ofqual chief tells headteachers that if she were a centre leader, she would have all work that contributes to grades done in school under exam conditions to combat students using artificial intelligence to complete work

Ofsted chief: Complaints process not ‘satisfying’ schools

Amanda Spielman also admits that pupil voice has been given too much weight in some Ofsted school inspections, speaking at a headteachers’ conference this morning

Teacher strikes: EIS union members vote to accept pay offer

Teacher strike action over pay started in November in Scotland but all industrial action has now been called off by the EIS, Scotland's biggest teaching union

Stop ‘trading in fatuous soundbites’, Keegan told

Headteachers' leader to urge education secretary to come forward with a pay offer and end the teacher strikes

Free schools ‘won’t solve SEND places crisis’

Special-school leaders question whether the DfE understands the scale of shortage of places after latest announcement

DfE ‘concern’ over off-site schooling

Government concerned at quality of education at alternative settings outside of schools, ÌÇÐÄVlog has learned

10 MATs lined up to run attendance hubs

Project started by Northern Education Trust set to be rolled out to major multi-academy trusts after call from Gillian Keegan

Schools forced to become ‘4th emergency service’

Schools are having to run an unofficial welfare service for pupils, a heads union leader will warn today after a survey shows most heads say local child support services are 'inadequate'

DfE to watch how catch-up cut hits schools

Department will monitor the impact of next year's NTP subsidy drop and share with the Treasury, the permanent secretary said

Oak National signs up Pearson as curriculum partner

News comes ahead of the full list of curriculum providers for Oak National Academy, which ÌÇÐÄVlog understands is expected to be announced next week

Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association votes to accept pay offer

The union will now end its industrial action over pay, while the ballot result for Scotland’s largest union, the EIS, is due tomorrow

School buildings still risky, admits DfE

The DfE's most senior civil servant says there is an 'unknown risk' around older school buildings

Schools’ ‘slow rot’ caused by DfE structure focus

A slip in school standards or safeguarding is 'rarely' the fault of individual heads or teachers, shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said today

Sats results delay ‘disappointing’ and ‘avoidable’

Schools won't get key stage 2 results until 11 July due to the coronation bank holiday

Call for urgent pay talks ahead of Budget

The NASUWT teaching union has said members' patience is being 'tested to the limit'

How to contribute to the Scottish qualifications review

The independent review of assessment and qualifications is asking if external exams should be significantly reduced and if the Higher brand should be consigned to history – but how do teachers and heads feed back their views?

Call for Ofsted to rate catch-up quality

The National Tutoring Programme has 'changed the landscape' but must focus on quality, says Sutton Trust

GCSEs: Deaf students ‘more than a year behind’ classmates

'Unacceptable inequality' that deaf children face by the time they sit their GCSEs is highlighted by new report