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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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Supply teachers limit travel to schools as fuel costs soar

Exclusive: Rural schools face extra struggle to find cover as cost pressures deter supply teachers from travelling long distances

DfE launches review into how MATs will be held to account

Review to set out new standards for multi-academy trusts as well as threshold for government to intervene

Secondary teacher trainees nearly a fifth below pre-Covid level

Latest figures show a deteriorating picture in the number of people being placed on teacher-training courses

Call for nursery school funding shake-up amid closure fears

More than a fifth of maintained nurseries face closure within three years owing to stretched budgets, survey suggests

Order schools to track racist bullying data, DfE told

Steps need to be taken to prevent discrimination and encourage 'inclusive education' and 'belonging' in schools, say researchers

ÌÇÐÄVlog’ 10 questions with...Chris Smith

The award-winning maths teacher talks about why his subject is 'beautiful'

No regular music lessons in over third of secondaries

New data from Teacher Tapp comes after Ofsted said KS3 students should receive 'regular, unbroken' music teaching

MPs told schools should receive a ‘yearly safeguarding audit’

Experts warn there is no 'clear guidance for schools about how to manage' incidents of misogyny and abuse

Government to miss target for setting up Gaelic schools

The goal was to establish 10 standalone Gaelic schools by next year but Bòrd na Gàidhlig says that target will be missed

Plan for supply teachers to cover strikes ‘doesn’t add up’, Zahawi told

A supply teachers' leader has written to the education secretary, dismissing the idea that supply teachers would cover teachers on strike

National music plan ‘impossible’ to achieve, DfE warned

Primary school leaders say the government music education plan requires more cash, while experts question DfE costings

Covid: ‘Significantly’ fewer primary pupils to be vaccinated

Figures show rise in primary school parents 'unlikely' to have their child vaccinated against Covid, as UK enters fifth wave

ITT: University of Cambridge submits application

But the university said it could withdraw its teacher training application at a later stage if its concerns are not fully addressed

Are school faculties only good for saving money?

New research finds teachers' views of faculties are ‘damning’, sparking call for schools to ‘revert to subject-based leadership’

Sats 2022: Call for ‘thorough review’ amid fears about marking

Exclusive: Heads urge government to review the operation of this year's Sats as concerns are raised by markers

National categorisation of schools to end in Wales

Schools will no longer be colour coded depending on their performance – but inspection is to become more frequent

Schools get £25m for instruments under new music plan

Government announces a new national plan for music education and extra funding for competitive sport in schools

DfE starts talks with sector over Oak quango plans

Exclusive: Discussions will begin next week over how the new national arm's-length curriculum body will operate

Miss tutoring form deadline and we’ll reclaim cash, DfE tells heads

Schools that receive school-led tutoring funding as part of the NTP have been warned that they must submit an end of year statement by 16 September

Warning over ‘knee jerk’ response to fix ECF

Exclusive: Allow schools and trusts involved in Early Career Framework delivery to build on first-year learning, says leader

Revealed: schools’ ‘soul-destroying’ bids to fix broken buildings

Hundreds of schools have repeatedly missed out in their applications for funding to repair rundown buildings, while others have enjoyed much more success. But why? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates

No schools managed to switch energy using government service in 2022

Exclusive: The government's School Switch platform closed in March – but no school successfully switched energy using it after December 2021

Zahawi labels GCSE poetry changes as ‘cultural vandalism’

The removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE poetry anthology was criticised by the education secretary

Pupils getting into first choice school at highest level in years

The proportion of secondary school applicants who received an offer from their first preference school increased to 83.3 per cent, while the figure was 92.2 per cent at primary level