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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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10 questions with... Carole Willis
NFER chief executive Carole Willis chats with ÌÇÐÄVlog about getting out of PE lessons and lunchtime discos at school, the importance of data, and why she would establish an Opportunity Task Force if she became education secretary
Strike ballot warning made over teacher pay in Scotland
NASUWT is seeking an 'immediate programme of pay restoration', starting with a pay award of at least 12 per cent
Oak boss: ‘Teachers must always decide what they teach’
Exclusive: Oak National Academy chief insists the newly created national curriculum resources provider will not threaten teachers' autonomy
New attendance dashboard launches to ‘tackle absence’
The dashboard is part of the government's drive to improve school attendance this term
Teacher training cold spot task force unveiled
The government says the new ITT steering group will work with the sector on 'next steps', after fears that its culling of providers would lead to regional 'cold spots'
GCSEs 2023: We can’t mitigate for varied Covid impact, says Ofqual
Ofqual chief tells ÌÇÐÄVlog that it is 'impossible' to put measures in place in the exams system to account for different levels of Covid disruption to learning across the country
DfE reveals approved teacher training providers
DfE publishes full list of organisations accredited to offer teacher training courses from 2024 following its shake-up of the sector
Heads express anger over rejection of Scottish exam appeals
Headteachers share fears that a high number of failed appeals would show that teachers' judgment and Covid disruption are not being properly reflected
GCSEs and A levels 2023: How exams will run next summer
The government and Ofqual have set out how exams will run this year – here’s everything you need to know
ITT shake-up: Universities could launch legal action against DfE
The government's reaccreditation of teacher training providers was 'unnecessary and flawed', says higher education leader
Labour conference diary: School gloom amid the optimism
Opposition party buoyant with record lead in the polls – but the mood was very different on the education fringes
Education secretary urged to intervene in Scottish teacher pay talks
Union tells Somerville to get directly involved if teacher strike action is to be avoided
DfE shake-up to shrink teacher training market by 25%
Exclusive: A total of 179 providers have now been approved to offer courses following the DfE shake-up of the sector, ÌÇÐÄVlog has learned
Maths anxiety felt by 45% of Scottish pupils, report finds
Stress in relation to the subject is still an issue but attitudes are improving, a survey of almost 6,500 pupils has found
Does the Scottish curriculum need to be more clearly mapped?
An expert panel was divided over the need for 'top down' prescription – but there was consensus over where Curriculum for Excellence should go next
Half of school leaders back union strike action vote
Nearly one in seven heads' union members who responded to survey said it should hold a ballot over restricted duties in reaction to low funding and pay
Labour plans curriculum reform that prizes ‘skills as well as knowledge’
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson says we need a curriculum that 'values and nurtures creativity alongside academic success'
GCSEs: AQA swaps English literature texts to boost diversity
The exam board has cut three texts, including Alan Bennett's 'The History Boys', to make way for works that 'better reflect modern Britain'
Bids for new schools in Wales will form ‘blueprint’ for future
Welsh government will fund two new schools that must be low on energy and water consumption
Labour pledges fully funded breakfast clubs in all primary schools
Policy to be funded by reinstating 45 per cent income tax bracket, shadow education secretary to announce
Schools lose thousands shielding pupils from rising meal prices
Heads keen to ensure that struggling families can afford school meals amid a rise in catering prices are having to make cuts elsewhere in their stretched budgets
Kelly Tolhurst named schools and childhood minister in final DfE line-up
Schools standards minister Jonathan Gullis, Andrea Jenkyns and Baroness Barran form the rest of Kit Malthouse's team
Oak is ‘a betrayal’ of teachers, warns union leader
Union boss issues scathing attack on relaunched Oak National Academy, calling it a 'vanity project' that will worsen teacher shortages
Geoff Barton to stand down as ASCL general secretary in 2024
Union leader was re-elected unopposed for a second term last year