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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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Scottish teaching unions react with anger to ‘weak’ pay offer

Strike action looms as latest offer is described as ‘insulting’ by the country’s largest teaching union

A levels 2022: English lit drops out of top 10 most popular subjects

Entries for English literature A level fell by 9.4 per cent this year, new figures have shown – after a call for government action to 'stop the spiral of decline'

A levels 2022: Top grades fall at private schools

Despite the fall, independent schools still received the highest proportion of A* grades

A-level results 2022: Regional top grade gap wider after pandemic

The gap between the regions with the largest and smallest proportions of top A-level grades has increased since the last set of exams in 2019

Northern Ireland A-level results day 2022: key trends

We look at the latest A-level results in Northern Ireland, after the first full set of summer exams since 2019

Wales A-level results day 2022: key trends

It is the first time Welsh students have sat external A-level exams since 2019 – so how did they do?

A levels 2022: Results at a glance

The latest A-level results broken down by gender, subject and grades

Teacher training taskforce launched to tackle ‘cold spots’

Exclusive: DfE to set up new teacher training taskforce in a bid to persuade more providers to expand to stop parts of the country becoming ITT 'cold spots'

Scottish education’s strength? It shapes hearts and minds

Attainment is important but so are ‘the kind of citizens you are creating’, says government adviser and Canadian educator Dr Avis Glaze

National Audit Office to examine ‘value for money’ of catch-up schemes

The spending watchdog will look at whether the National Tutoring Programme is achieving value for money

A levels 2022: ‘Severe concern’ over continued decline in English entries

ASCL warn that the decline has been influenced by the 'grind of memorising large amounts of traditional texts' at GCSE

New route opens up for school leavers with complex needs

The new college will plug a gap in provision that means Scottish students with complex needs can be forced to move to England

GCSEs: ‘Virtually no change’ in disadvantage gap over 20 years

Experts have said that if the 2030 Sats attainment targets are to be met, the government must prioritise education

A levels 2022: Results day will not be ‘pain-free’, Ucas warns

Ucas chief executive Clare Marchant says returning to a 'midpoint' in grades was never going to be easy

Law providing free period products comes into force

The law requiring schools to provide free sanitary products comes into force in Scotland today – but already there are calls for more to be done

GCSEs and A levels 2022: How teachers got to results day

We look back at the journey towards the return of exams this summer – and how heads and teachers navigated record Covid rates in schools to steer students through the exam series

GCSE results day 2022: Exam board strike planned

Staff at the country's biggest exam board, AQA, are also planning to strike on A-level results day over pay

GCSE results 2022: Over half of teachers warn of ‘atrocious’ exam aid impact

Exclusive: 'Disgraceful' government and exam-board delays and mistakes over measures to help students will mean results will be 'grossly unfair', teachers have said

GCSEs and A levels: 9 in 10 teachers fear grades will be unfair

Exclusive: Over half of teachers are 'hugely concerned' students will not get exam grades they deserve despite measures to mitigate Covid disruption, a ÌÇÐÄVlog poll shows

Teacher strikes looming as pay deal rejected

Union says it is 'committed' to a ballot on strike action after a survey shows nearly three-quarters of its members 'reject' the teacher pay award

High stakes exams ‘discredited’, say Scottish school leaders

Scottish secondary leaders body calls for assessment system overhaul – as headteachers predict ‘huge’ appeals workload

New Schools Network invites school bids for £650k fund

Charity launches fund aimed at supporting free schools and academy trusts that are focused on tackling disadvantage after losing government contract

School funding ‘will barely increase in next 3 years’

With rising inflation predicted to wipe out much of the planned funding increases for schools, leaders warn stretched budgets could lead to bigger classes

SQA exam results day 2022: what we’ve learned

The results of the first national Scottish Qualifications Authority exams since 2019 have been published today