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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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Zahawi: Teacher strike would be ‘unforgivable’

Teachers going on strike over pay would cause further disruption to pupils' education after the pandemic, the education secretary says

DfE launches £750K plan to promote flexible working in schools

The DfE says its chosen provider will deliver a 'culture change programme' to embed flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts

Pay rise proposals ‘not enough’ to solve Stem teacher shortage

Recruitment targets for physics and computing are highly unlikely to be achieved under any package of measures, report warns

GCSEs 2022: League tables ‘unfair’ despite DfE changes

Leaders warn that the DfE's plan to change its school performance league tables website in the aftermath of Covid does not go far enough

Almost 4 in 10 teachers ‘would support strike’ over 3% pay rise

Exclusive: Support for a teacher strike could increase without a better pay offer, and government should be 'very concerned', warns heads' union leader

Dundee teacher strike called off after legal intervention

Court decision stops Dundee City Council 'implementing' or 'taking any further steps to implement' faculties in its schools

GCSEs: OCR adds 15 poems to boost ‘diversity’

Works by Ukrainian, black and South Asian poets to be introduced to OCR's GCSE English literature course from September

Teacher strike warning as prices hit 40-year high

Largest teaching union warns it will ballot for strike action if members don't receive a fully-funded inflation-plus pay rise

How schools responded to rail strikes

Heads have praised the 'resilience' of staff after schools worked to minimise the disruption caused by strike action today

Guidance on the use of restraint not enough, says commissioner

Proposed new official guidance on the use of restraint in schools must be ‘put on a statutory footing’, says Scotland’s children’s commissioner

More than quarter of a million students met threshold for absence fines

Students with Send and those who are disadvantaged were more likely to meet the thresholds for consideration of a parental fine, new analysis shows 

DfE accused of ‘telesales’ tactics to boost tutoring take-up

Exclusive: School leaders have hit out after new figures showed the DfE made 7,513 calls to schools over the past few weeks to drive up usage of the NTP

A levels 2022: AQA investigating chemistry paper ‘leak’

Exam board says it will 'take any action necessary, including working with the police'

DfE suggests schools fund exam student travel during strikes

There are three days of national strike action being planned by the RMT union this week on 21, 23 and 25 June

New help for teachers dealing with Covid’s impact on pupils

'We have yet to witness the full impact of the Covid pandemic on our children and young people,' teachers are advised

Teaching unions prepared to ballot for strike over pay

Union leader says strike action 'is the last thing our members want' and they are making a 'cry for help' on pay

Teacher adverts up 14% compared with pre-Covid

There are 'emerging signs' of a teacher shortage, with a number of schools reporting that they have not been able to fill vacancies, says recruitment report

Revealed: the ÌÇÐÄVlog Schools Awards 2022 winners

The ÌÇÐÄVlog Schools Awards ceremony was held in person for the first time in three years and celebrated the amazing achievements of schools and teachers

DfE sets out new rules on pupil absence fines

Planned new government standards would mean fines have to be considered if a pupil has 10 unauthorised absences in a term – including being late

Covid stalled progress and shifted priorities, say heads

The impact of Covid on Scottish schools' attempts to close the poverty-related attainment gap has been revealed in a survey of headteachers

Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner

Dame Rachel de Souza's comments follow claims from the government social mobility tsar that 'hard maths' is something girls would 'rather not do'

GCSEs 2022: Ofqual chief’s verdict on first exams since Covid

Ofqual chief Jo Saxton has spoken publicly for the first time since this summer's GCSEs got underway, and revealed her early verdict on the attempt to return to normal assessment

Teachers ‘filling gaps’ for social care, warns children’s tsar

Dame Rachel de Souza says there is now an opportunity to deliver a 'system around the children', and urges schools to engage

WATCH: School meals delivered by drone in UK first

Drones could soon be bringing school meals to pupils in remote parts of Scotland