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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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Announcement on SQA appeals process due ‘later this week’

One possibility is a return to the old 'post-results service' – but it could be free and learners could be given direct access

Call to tackle poorer students’ negative thinking

Counselling and coaching interventions could help to address disadvantaged students' negative thinking about their career prospects, new research suggests

NEU: ‘Appropriate’ for teachers to withhold strike plans

Union boss was asked whether teachers should tell heads of their plans for tomorrow's national walkout

Teacher strike: ‘More than half’ of secondaries to partly close

One in seven schools is set to close to all pupils during the teacher pay strike on Wednesday, a poll suggests

Support staff unions demand 12.7% pay rise

Unions also ask for a flat increase to bring the minimum hourly pay for school support staff to £15 within two years

‘Many councils’ facing teacher recruitment and retention challenges

Scottish government threatening financial sanctions if pupil-teacher ratios worsen, but councils say they can’t fill jobs in certain areas and subjects

Last-ditch talks fail to avert teacher strike

Teaching union gears up for a national strike on Wednesday after 'deeply disappointing' eleventh-hour negotiations with the education secretary

ITT reaccreditation ‘a huge distraction’, says DfE adviser

The controversial reaccreditation process for teacher training, which is set to result in the loss of around a quarter of providers, should not have gone ahead, says Professor Sam Twiselton

Keegan: Teachers should tell heads if they plan to strike

Education secretary urges NEU to help avoid 'unnecessary disruption' on Wednesday – but union dismisses her words as 'cheap point scoring'

Auschwitz victim’s story to be taught in Scottish schools

A teacher has been given the job of helping pupils learn about a Scot who refused to leave the side of hundreds of Jewish schoolgirls in Hungary during the Second World War

Students repeat online ‘mistruths’ about the Holocaust

Research into students' attitudes towards teaching about the Holocaust, published to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, also reveals that four in 10 teachers have encountered antisemitism

Strikes: Keegan’s last-ditch plea to keep schools open

The education secretary appeared resigned to teacher strikes going ahead next week as she urged leaders to keep their schools open during the action

Teacher pay must go up if education is a priority, chancellor told

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt highlighted the importance of education in a speech today

Teacher strikes: What school leaders need to know

Do schools have to report their strike plans to government? Are support staff taking part? Can heads force staff to cover classes? ÌÇÐÄVlog answers the 11 burning questions facing school leaders in the run-up to next week's strikes

Strikes: Heads warn over ‘hardline’ DfE approach

Leaders are weighing up whether they can keep schools open during teacher strikes, telling the DfE it won't be like the pandemic when staff were keen to help

Teacher pay: Heads call for 15% ‘uplift’ in ‘last chance’ review

NAHT general secretary says the STRB process has 'failed' the education profession

DfE to miss teacher pay review deadline

A school leaders' union will now also be asking for an extension to the deadline

One in five trusts paying top earners over £150k

New figures show that more than 20 per cent of trusts awarded at least one staff member salary and pension package over £150,000 in 2020-21

Government to enforce minimum learning hours

The Scottish government is also expected to ‘lock’ the pupil-teacher ratio at current levels amid council proposals to cut teacher jobs

Labour will ‘demand’ MATs cooperate with councils on admissions

Shadow education secretary tells conference the party wants to 'smooth the differences' of a two-tier school system

No resolution found as teacher strikes loom in Wales

The Welsh government and unions met yesterday but no deal was reached – and no further meetings are planned ahead of teacher walkouts next week

Hayward: Exam reform must be ‘both principled and practical’

The timelines for the reform of Scottish qualifications will be realistic – but will also ensure ‘over time we continue to make progress’

3 days ‘not enough to fix schools’ RI issues’

DfE-appointed school improvement experts say they are not being given enough time to help schools rated 'requires improvement'

Revealed: How Ofsted will investigate alternative provision

Watchdog publishes new guidance setting out how it will review AP from next month