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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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GCSEs 2022: Exam board warning over ‘clickbait’ grades videos

Exclusive: AQA warning over 'misleading' YouTube content that claims to predict pass marks needed to achieve grade levels

Grammar schools warming to non-selective MAT plans

Grammar schools were previously planning grammar-only MATs over fears about their selective status

Councils warned ‘clock is ticking’ over teacher pay

EIS says 2 per cent offer is 'completely inadequate' and warns it will ballot for industrial action if fair settlement not reached quickly

Authorised school absence ‘equally detrimental’ to pupils

New research challenges the assumption that unauthorised absences – or truancy – are more harmful than authorised absences to how well pupils do in school

Welsh secondaries delaying new curriculum is ‘only right’

But school leaders' union says primaries also need ‘flexibility’ because of ‘immense pressure’ they are under

Data: students from deprived backgrounds entering university

New Scottish figures reveal the rate of progress in widening access to university

Call on Ofsted to probe ‘gender equity’ in schools

Science and Technology Committee session explores how to promote uptake of science subjects among girls

Heads ‘torn’ over rising school meal costs

School leaders grapple with ensuring pupils get ‘more than one potato’ as lunch costs soar

Closing attainment gap: Somerville reluctant to set target dates

Education secretary also faces criticism over use of attainment-gap funding to compensate for local budget cuts

DfE ‘updates’ White Paper claims after criticism from stats watchdog

Statistics regulator revealed today that it had written to the DfE with concerns about the use of data supporting its academies plan

Call for national trial mocks to avoid online GCSE ‘disaster’

Professor John Jerrim has warned that a move to digital exams could be a 'logistical nightmare'

Three extra Reception pupils per class fell behind in pandemic

A new report from the Education Endowment Foundation has found that four- and five-year-olds were less likely to meet the expected levels of development in 2021 than before Covid disruption

‘Significant disparities’ in career progression for non-white teachers

The NFER find that pupils in English state schools have a 'high probability' of never being taught by a teacher who is not white

Most secondary teachers say primaries ‘excessively drill’ pupils

And just 2 in 5 primary teachers say key stage 2 tests are an accurate measure of pupil attainment

Ofsted warning over shortage of computing teachers

Ofsted's latest subject review looks at what the computing curriculum should include

£13.5m over three years for Welsh ‘National Music Service’

A ‘library of instruments, resources and equipment’ will be established to make music more accessible in Wales

DfE ‘riding roughshod’ over governors on academies

Governance chief questions plan to allow councils to academise schools without their support

ÌÇÐÄVlog’ 10 questions with... Michelle Sterricks

The faculty head and Great Tapestry of Scotland education officer shares why the next iteration of the internet – the metaverse – has ‘huge potential’ for education

DfE could face legal action over Oak National Academy plan

Suppliers association considering judicial review over decision to establish Oak as a new arm's-length national curriculum body of the DfE

ITT: Almost two-thirds of providers not accredited in first wave

Just 80 ITT providers have been accredited in the first round of the process

DfE accused of unlawful decision over £121m Institute of Teaching bid

Ambition Institute's High Court action bids to get government contract verdict overturned, ÌÇÐÄVlog can reveal

Zahawi apologises to heads for Bank Holiday tutoring letter

But education secretary Nadhim Zahawi defends plans to publish school NTP data and insists it is 'not a new accountability measure'

Revealed: Which new Stem teachers will get levelling up premium

DfE sets out how up to 7,000 early career teachers will be able to claim the bonus announced by the prime minister last year

SSTA: Prioritise teacher retention, not just new recruits

An exclusive focus on recruitment to drive up teacher numbers in Scotland would 'miss the point', says union boss