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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: New Oak to stop teachers ‘reinventing the wheel’

The education secretary is expected to confirm plans for the ‘transformation’ of Oak into a new UK-wide curriculum quango today

Keep school Covid tests free to avoid exam disruption, Zahawi told

Heads’ leader warns virus among staff is still leading to whole year group closures in the run-up to GCSEs and A levels

End ‘spaghetti junction’ catch-up funding, say MPs

The National Tutoring Programme contract with Randstad should be stopped if the scheme fails to meet its targets by spring, says committee

Eton plan for three selective sixth-form schools in North and Midlands

Private school partnership with major MAT aims to open free schools in Oldham, Middlesbrough and Dudley

Muir told exams are ‘necessary and beneficial’

But exams should be ‘lighter touch’, say respondents to the consultation that informed report on Scottish education reform

Schools ‘stand ready’ to take in children fleeing war in Ukraine

Heads' leader said challenge can be met rapidly after education secretary Nadhim Zahawi announced plans to place 100,000 children in UK schools

Top MATs set to run £121m Institute of Teaching

A group of big multi-academy trusts is the preferred bidder to run the government's new teacher training organisation, ÌÇÐÄVlog understands

DfE tries to tempt back ex-chemistry and computing teachers

Government extends support scheme in an attempt to persuade more former teachers back into the classroom to help with Covid catch-up

DfE seeks provider for £1m EYFS catch-up hubs

New hubs are part of the government's £180m early years Covid recovery effort, aimed at building a 'stronger, more expert workforce'

Schools ‘lack funding’ for careers guidance

All schools should have a professional careers adviser because the quality of careers guidance is too varied, says Sutton Trust report

Warning over lack of multi-sensory teachers

The government needs to create an education fund for children with both sight and hearing loss, says charity

Teachers ‘could face severe real-terms pay cuts’

The chancellor will need to impose real-terms pay cuts in the public sector or change borrowing or spending plans, warns the IFS

NTP risks ‘sucking teachers out of schools’

Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Munira Wilson also said the programme ‘risks proving a disaster’ during a debate today

Exclusive: Oak to become new UK online academy quango

The government is to hand a new UK-wide online curriculum contract to the remote learning provider, ÌÇÐÄVlog understands

Muir report: key points on future of Scottish education

The long-awaited Muir report was published today, pointing the way to post-Covid education reform

Launch of Muir report on SQA reform branded ‘chaotic’

The publication of the Muir report on the future of the SQA and Education Scotland brought forward amid controversy over exam support materials

Ofsted can have ‘most impact’ on early years, says Spielman

The watchdog's chief inspector says its next 5-year plan will focus on early years

‘Rationalise’ school data systems to cut absence, says commissioner

Dame Rachel de Souza publishes her interim report investigating attendance data collection across the school system

GCSEs: ‘Value’ of DfE league tables under scrutiny

Assessment of performance data comes amid concern over reintroduction of school league tables

School attendance highest since last May

But union leader warns we are 'not out of the woods yet' when it comes to Covid-related absences

Teachers hit out at SQA study support published by mistake

Support materials were published accidentally by Scotland’s exam body last night – and many teachers say they add nothing

DfE ‘disconnected’ from reality, says former top official

Former DfE permanent secretary says Whitehall shows 'surprisingly little interest' in what those who use or deliver public services think

Revealed: DfE assessment of Covid policy risks to school staff

Documents outlining the possible impacts of Covid policy in schools released after legal victory for teaching union

15% of places on secondary teaching courses unfilled

Stem subjects are worst hit – a quarter of places on Scottish postgraduate courses for maths teachers went unfilled this year