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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