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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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Government SEND plan to be published ‘within a week’

Education secretary says long-awaited plan to reform the SEND system, which was originally due to be set out last year, will be published in days

ITT: Teaching applications even lower than last year

Interest in teaching 'haemorrhaging', expert warns as latest statistics show 15% fall in primary teaching applicants

IB students can use ChatGPT in essays

International Baccalaureate says it will not ban students from using the chatbot in their work as long as they credit it

Survey: More Scots support teacher strikes than don’t

But there would be more support for nurses if they decided to strike in Scotland, as well as postal workers and bin men

Heads ‘emotionally crushed’ by ‘impossible job’

Eroding budgets, staff shortages and exhaustion from the pandemic mean school leadership is in crisis, support service warns

Review Ofsted school grades, says academies body

Confederation of School Trusts also calls on Ofsted to urgently assess the 'reliability' of its current inspection framework

SSTA members narrowly vote to accept teacher pay offer

Secondary teachers' union withdraws involvement in Scottish strike action next week 'in the expectation of an improved pay offer in the coming days'

School librarians being ‘wiped out’ in parts of Scotland

Budget cuts mean school libraries are facing 'stark' future, Shirley-Anne Somerville is warned

Teacher strikes: walkouts set to go ahead next week

NEU says education secretary Gillian Keegan has failed to prevent the upcoming strikes from happening but tells her she still has time to make a new pay offer

School support staff offered £1,925 pay rise from April

The pay deal is similar to one proposed last April and equates to a 9.42% increase for the lowest-paid staff

School attendance drive ‘creating a long-term problem’

DfE guidance is taking away schools' ability to make exceptional decisions on pupils' leave of absence and damaging trust with families, heads' leaders warn MPs

Sam Twiselton: my experience inside the ITT review

In an exclusive interview, Professor Sam Twiselton reveals how she has fought to steer the government's controversial shake-up of the initial teacher training sector in the right direction, and shares her fears about the future fallout

Persistent absence through illness more than double pre-Covid

New DfE data shows that, across the academic year, almost one in four pupils were persistently absent with illness

9 in 10 schools cut spending amid soaring costs

Two-thirds of schools have seen an increase in pupils arriving hungry according to research from last term

‘Unfunded’ pay offer will force staff cuts, leaders warn

Government tells heads to 'carefully plan' budgets to manage the 2023 teacher pay award within core funding, but school and MAT leaders warn further staff cuts will be needed

Revealed: How Ofsted wants schools to teach art and design

Seven key recommendations from the watchdog's latest subject-focused research review

Female teachers ‘work 81 days a year for free’

Teachers and education staff in England face the second biggest gender pay gap of any sector, according to new research

Scottish primary school leaders’ body calls off strike action

Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland has voted to accept revised teacher pay offer made last week – but NASUWT Scotland union votes to reject

Somerville grilled over teacher numbers pledge

The decision has caused ‘chaos’ in councils and is leading to ‘massive cuts’ in other services, claim opposition politicians

DfE developing new teaching degree apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are currently offered as a teacher training route, but only at postgraduate level

Teachers won’t strike if DfE makes ‘serious’ new pay offer

NEU stands firm over strikes but Downing Street said there will be 'no talks' if next week's strike action is not cancelled first

Teachers ‘might wish to delay’ becoming SQA markers

EIS teaching union says it is up to individual teachers if they want to be SQA markers, even though ‘targeting of SQA-related activity’ is ‘outwith the scope of the current industrial action’

Revealed: What the big academy trusts paid their top leaders

Most academy trusts with 25 schools or more increased the salary band of their top earner last year, ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis reveals

10 questions with...Melanie Renowden

The chief executive officer of the National Institute of Teaching recalls how she was 'won over by the wonder of maths' at school and explains why education quality and staff development go hand in hand