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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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Secondary heads play down impact of strike action on exams

Despite the teacher strike over pay closing secondary schools across Scotland today, heads say schools had plenty of time to reschedule preliminary exams

Using primaries to ease special schools pressure ‘a damning admission of failure’

Special school pupils could be housed temporarily in unfilled primary schools as DfE looks at ways to use space left vacant by falling pupil rolls

10 questions with... Emma Hollis

NASBTT executive director Emma Hollis talks to ÌÇÐÄVlog about the importance of staying humble and the increasing pressure the education sector is facing

Call for MPs to investigate private school taxes

Labour plans to force a vote in Parliament on the creation of a new committee to look at the 'fair taxation of schools and education standards'

Headteachers won’t accept ‘bullies’ charter’ strike law, ministers warned

'Dog's breakfast' legislation 'flies in the face of long-held civil liberties', say teaching union leaders

Cross-party group to examine case for assessment reform

Exams system to come under scrutiny by MPs in attempt to influence political parties' manifestos

School energy bills ‘will stay high’ with reduced support

Schools' energy bills could be tens of thousands higher than they would have been if the previous government support scheme had continued, school leaders warn

Scottish free school meals pledge to remain undelivered by August 2024

Universal free school meals were supposed to be in place in primary by August 2022 – but the pledge won’t even be fully realised two years after that

Watchdog signs off SIMS contract break clause plan

But no decision made on whether ESS broke Competition Act law by adding new clause to contracts for school informational management systems

Revealed: Where excluded pupils end up

'Inadequate' schools have twice as many pupils who had been permanently excluded than those rated 'outstanding', finds analysis

Scottish teacher pay strikes: deal still ‘some distance’ away

Teaching unions say they were left with no alternative but to go out on strike this week, but there are 'some grounds for optimism'

Some schools to get reduced help with energy bills from April

The government has announced another year of help for schools, but only those with the most expensive bills will receive support

Scottish teacher strikes to go ahead as planned tomorrow

Strike action will also take place on Wednesday after no new teacher pay offer was tabled

Ministers warned time is running out to avert teacher strike threat

Unions set to hold more talks with DfE over pay but one leader said they have heard nothing to dissuade them from taking industrial action

New timeline for Scottish qualifications review

The final report of the independent Hayward review of qualifications and assessment in Scotland has been delayed to ensure ‘meaningful engagement’

Pay talks: Ministers urged to find more money for teachers

Union leaders to meet education secretary Gillian Keegan today amid looming threat of strikes in schools over pay

Oak launches subject expert groups to win over teachers

Curriculum resources quango seeks to recruit teacher subject advisers but unions sound alarm over government 'status'

Teacher pay body has its ‘arms tied’, says governors’ chief

Emma Knights calls for shake-up of teacher pay review system to make it 'more independent' of government

Nearly 7 in 10 ASCL members want strike vote

The union's general secretary says the results show the 'strength of feeling' among members

New social mobility tsar as Birbalsingh resigns

High-profile headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh steps down as chair of the Social Mobility Commission, saying her 'notoriety' put the organisation 'in jeopardy'

New strike laws will ‘inflame’ disputes, warns EIS boss

Teacher strike action over pay is already underway in Scotland but ‘meaningful negotiation’ is the way to resolve disputes – not legislation, says Andrea Bradley

Fears for pupil safety as safeguarding referrals result in ‘no action’

Why do so many safeguarding referrals from schools end in 'no further action', and why is the system increasingly 'fraught and difficult'? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates

‘Extreme’ costs and ‘political instability’ disrupt MAT investment

Cost pressures are forcing major academy trusts to delay investment in education and school buildings, accounts show

Primary teachers to get pupil careers training

New £2.6m government scheme will provide training and support to teachers in 55 Education Investment Areas