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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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School holiday pay ruling could affect thousands of staff

Case could 'open floodgates' for term-time workers to demand more holiday pay from schools, say lawyers

Teacher pay: threat of strikes across the UK

'A perfect storm’ of simultaneous strike action across the four UK nations is brewing over teacher pay, warns Scottish teaching union

Food tech becoming ‘too expensive to teach’ as inflation soars

Exclusive: Subject leads warn they are worried that the rising cost of ingredients could lead to schools cutting practical lessons

Nick Weller named new CEO at Academy Transformation Trust

Luke Sparkes will take over as new chief executive of Dixons having helped the trust establish new free schools

Ofsted criticises schools for over-focusing on exams

Eight Ofsted findings on how schools have been helping pupils to recover from Covid disruption to their learning

Threat of heads’ industrial action over ‘inadequate’ pay award

Headteacher union leaders also warn that the lack of funding for the teacher pay rises could lead to schools making redundancies

Experienced teacher pay to rise by 5%

Announcement comes after the teachers' pay review body recommended a higher pay rise than the DfE had originally proposed

School cuts ‘increasingly inevitable’ with 1.9% funding rise

Union leaders have said that funding increases are not adequate given rising inflation levels

More school libraries likely to come under threat next year

A Scottish council has cut the librarian posts in all secondaries – and there has been a 12% reduction in posts nationwide since 2018

Tutoring take-up soars after DfE ‘besieges’ schools

Four in five schools are using the government's National Tutoring Programme after 'pressurising' calls and threat of league tables from the DfE

Revealed: Winning National Tutoring Programme bids

Who's running the government's tutoring scheme next year?

Ofsted visits during heatwave ‘entirely inappropriate’

Ofsted confirms to ÌÇÐÄVlog that school inspections have gone ahead today despite the red Met Office warning of extreme heat

Disadvantage gap wider in Wales than England

Students from poorer backgrounds in Wales were almost two years behind their peers pre-pandemic, finds new analysis

Oak National Academy: Pause ‘radical’ quango plan, DfE urged

Exclusive: Political uncertainty has weakened scrutiny of plans for new curriculum body, education secretary warned in letter from publishers

More funding for disadvantaged pupils ‘needed to close gaps’

Salary supplements to attract high-quality teachers to work in deprived communities could help close attainment gap, says new report

Heatwave: schools plan to close as red weather warning issued

DfE tells heads that it is not advising schools to close during next week's heatwave but suggests closing classrooms that get too hot

Schools relax uniform rules to prepare for heatwave

The Met Office has issued an extreme 'amber' warning for heat on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

Scottish school inspectors to carry out ‘at least 250’ visits

Inspection has been suspended in Scotland since the start of the pandemic but will resume in August

First week of term ‘critical’ for attendance, says commissioner

Dame Rachel de Souza has said the return to school in September is 'critical' for 'getting pupils into school and settled into the school routine'

AQA apologises after markers hit by payment delays

Exclusive: GCSE and A-level exam markers have described delays to their payments as 'a shambles'

School chain ups support staff salaries amid pay ‘arms race’

Exclusive: Leading head warns that schools need to raise pay of support staff to compete with other sectors amid the cost-of-living crisis

Revealed: How Ofsted rated its back to school performance

Inspectorate is asked to increase inspections and reduce its headcount as it resumed full programme of school visits

Schools face asbestos inspections from September

The inspections will examine how schools are meeting requirements for managing the risks from the dangerous building material on their sites

Exclusive: School budgets on a ‘knife edge’ over teacher pay

Political chaos and mounting pressure over teacher pay amid the cost-of-living crisis have left school budgets for next year in disarray, heads have warned