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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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Job satisfaction among heads and teachers hits new low

DfE data shows 'significant decrease' in teacher and school leader feelings of happiness and 'worthwhileness'

Schools Bill: Everything you need to know

The DfE has published plans to create new powers over academies, private schools and attendance. Here are the key announcements

Extra training cash won’t fix Covid mental health ‘catastrophe’

Further funding announced this week to train staff won’t solve the mental health issues schools face after the pandemic, heads' leaders warn

Schools Bill: New powers to sanction and close MATs

DfE says new powers are needed as it has not always been able to adequately intervene in failing multi-academy trusts

Secondary teachers ‘more stressed than ever’ about behaviour

Scottish secondary teachers to call for ‘urgent review’ of behaviour approaches in schools

Schools Bill: DfE wants councils to bid to academise schools

New Schools Bill would mean councils could apply to move some maintained schools into multi-academy trusts without governors' consent

EHCP demand hits ‘record high’ in pandemic

More than one in five requests for education, health and care plans were rejected last year but close to half a million children and young people now have one

GCSEs 2022: No school likely to exceed 2021 grades, says Ofqual

Exclusive: Ofqual chief regulator Jo Saxton says she hopes 2022 exam results will be higher than in 2019 but advises schools not to try working out Progress 8 yet

GCSEs: Over half of teachers want online exams

Most teachers who responded to an exam board poll said they need more training in the use of digital assessment

£7m for more mental health lead training in schools

Funding will allow 'up to 8,000' more schools and colleges to train senior leaders in mental health approaches, says DfE

SEND review: DfE apologises for accessible consultation delay

The Department for Education's most senior official says sorry to people who have had to wait six weeks for accessible versions of its SEND plans

Two years ‘at least’ before Education Scotland changes

For the ‘next few years’ it will be ‘business as usual’ for Education Scotland, despite government promise of reform, hear MSPs

Dundee teachers to strike over faculties plan

The EIS teaching union says the plan would ‘remove the vital experience offered by subject specialist principal teachers’

Home economics ‘disappearing’ from some Scottish schools

Home economics must no longer be treated as a 'poor relation' in the curriculum, says union

Heads blast ‘ridiculous’ waits for help during Sats

Primary schools 'deserve better support' during first key stage 2 Sats in three years, say heads

Half of MATs offered DfE attendance advice reject it

Exclusive: Figures obtained by ÌÇÐÄVlog show government's 'attendance adviser' plan is 'naive', says heads' leader

4 in 5 heads face more demand for extra exam space

Most heads also warn the level of stress and anxiety among exam students is higher than in pre-pandemic years

Exclusions data could become key in push to close attainment gap

More prominence mooted for school attendance and exclusion data in the Scottish government’s drive to close the attainment gap

DfE urges schools to budget for ‘Parent Pledge’

Government said delivering the pledge to help pupils catch up will mean a 'shift in approach' for some schools

GCSEs 2023: How exams will run next summer

Department for Education confirms return to 'full subject content' for 2023 GCSE and A levels

Clinical depression ‘widespread’ in teachers and leaders - survey

Union survey finds 'disturbing' evidence of wellbeing crisis among teachers

Teachers to vote on removal of councils from pay talks

Union wants to negotiate Scottish teachers' pay directly with government and speak to ‘the organ grinder, not the monkey’

7 plans for schools in tomorrow’s Queen’s Speech

Attendance, academies and Ofsted to be covered in Schools Bill outlined tomorrow

Holocaust survivors share their stories with schools

Second World War refugees' stories form basis of new resources for Scottish schools