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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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Prioritise safeguarding checks over inspections, Ofsted urged

Exclusive: Former senior inspectors call for major overhaul of Ofsted regime for schools

Scottish school named one of the world’s best

Dunoon Grammar has won the inaugural World’s Best School Prize for community collaboration and now will share in the $250,000 prize money

Scottish secondary teachers to vote on strike action

Closing schools through strikes is 'the only way that Cosla and the Scottish government will be forced to negotiate' over teacher pay, warns SSTA president

NEU could hold strike action by end of January 2023

The teaching union announces strike ballot dates for teachers and support staff in pay dispute

GCSEs: How Progress 8 has impacted lower-attaining pupils

New research looks at whether the Progress 8 performance measure 'encouraged schools to work more equitably'

Welsh school leaders to be balloted on strike action

NAHT Cymru is proceeding with a formal strike ballot after an informal vote suggested that 64 per cent of respondents would be willing to strike over pay and funding

School leaders’ union to launch formal ballot on striking over pay

NAHT members will be asked if they support strike action and action short of a strike over pay and funding

Industrial action over teacher pay underway in Northern Ireland

The industrial action will be intensified unless the 'devastating impact' of pay erosion is addressed, warn unions

Most parents ‘would back’ teacher industrial action

Research shows public support for teachers taking industrial action over pay, as the NASUWT union prepares to ballot its members

NTP: School leaders ‘overwhelmed’ and 4 other findings

Fewer than half of pupils who received tutoring were eligible for pupil premium, finds National Foundation for Educational Research report

Incorrect Sats marks rise by a fifth

Exclusive: Increase is 'further evidence of a Sats system beset with problems this year', says union leader

‘No good news for schools’ - leaders react to chancellor’s U-turn

Many school leaders will be worried about what the chancellor's statement 'could mean' for education, warns union leader

Government group looking to ‘modify’ teaching entry requirements

‘More flexibility’ in the entry requirements for teaching courses is being considered so the Scottish government can meet its commitments to increase teacher numbers and cut class contact time

Teaching unions move closer to strike action as ballots announced

Major announcements on potential strike action have been made by both the NEU and NASUWT teacher unions

One in four MATs in the North East considering mergers

Schools North East survey shows almost three-quarters of trusts that responded plan to expand or merge

Ofsted: Teaching pupils to speak standard English is ‘social justice’

Ofsted criticised over training materials it gives to inspectors that refer to the need for schools to teach children to speak standard English

DfE £9m academy debt bill set to rise amid cost pressures

Exclusive: Government academy debt write-offs could go 'up and up and up' amid the funding crisis – but this would just 'paper over the cracks', warn sector leaders

Pressure on DfE as teacher training shake-up appeals mount

Universities and school-based providers raise alarm over appeals process

School loan rate hike could hit ‘vital’ repairs

Exclusive: Trusts raise alarm as Condition Improvement Fund loans could now cost them tens of thousands of pounds extra to repay

Covid: State pupils twice as likely to feel ‘behind’

Research shows government catch-up has been 'nowhere near enough', say union leaders

Exam boards investigate private schools over grade malpractice

Ofqual chief tells MPs that exam boards are investigating allegations of malpractice relating to teacher-assessed grades during the pandemic

Sixth-form teachers to vote on strike action over pay

The NEU will launch a strike ballot next week after its sixth-form teacher members showed overwhelming support for demanding an above-inflation pay rise

Ballot opens over teacher strike action in Scotland

'Wholly inadequate' pay offer has 'angered our members and forced this move towards strike action', says EIS union

School building space could be used for childcare, says commissioner

Children's commissioner Rachel de Souza suggests 'bringing early education into the wider school sector'