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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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Education is joint top sector affected by long Covid

Teaching and education staff now have the joint highest incidence of long Covid, alongside social care workers

We need big changes in education, says new Glasgow boss

The new education director for Glasgow talks to ÌÇÐÄVlog Scotland about his time in the priesthood, exam reform, the importance of inclusion and why the drive to close the attainment gap should have started sooner

Teacher pension strikes suspended as talks begin

Exclusive: Teachers at 23 private schools in the Girls' Day School Trust were due to take part in strike action again this week

EYFS: Third of primaries yet to sign up for catch-up scheme

A quarter more primary schools signed up to the £8m second wave of the government's language Covid catch-up scheme for Reception pupils

DfE sets out plan for £30k teacher starting salary by 2023

The Department for Education has said that a significant pay rise is needed to recruit new teachers

How schools can teach pupils to spot fake news

Teachers can play a big role in helping students to recognise fake news, says Yvonne Skipper

EIS committee wants members to accept teacher pay offer

Teaching union says the focus should be on campaigning for a 10 per cent pay rise in 2022-23

Education events 2022

A selection of this year's education conferences and events

‘Damaging’ faculty plans trigger strike ballot

Union says there is ‘absolutely no sound educational rationale’ for removing principal teachers from schools

Call for teacher and head pay rise as supply ‘on the brink’

Five unions demand an uplift in pay to reverse the 'devastating' impact of pay 'attacks' on the profession

GCSEs: Exam aids ‘not enough to help poorer students’

Exclusive: Schools need more support to help the most disadvantaged students sitting exams this summer, one teachers' leader warns

Cash-strapped school cuts could damage education, MPs warn

Public spending watchdog says school finance figures mask ‘cruel divides between haves and have nots’

DfE under fire over catch-up target confusion amid NTP ‘challenges’

Schools minister admits to 'challenges' and that the government 'needs to keep doing better' over its flagship Covid catch-up programme

Ditch Russian energy firm from school supplier list, say heads

Exclusive: The government has come under pressure to remove Gazprom from the Crown Commercial Service’s School Switch service

Walker: Sats needed to assess Covid impact

Schools minister says national assessments will help show the impact of the pandemic to identify where support is needed

Schoolboy is youngest ever petitioner to Scottish Parliament

7-year-old Callum Isted wants to replace the disposable bottles of water given to primary school pupils with their lunches with reusable bottles

Ofsted delays early career provider inspections

Inspections of ECF and NPQ providers have been put back by 12 months

Big fall in applications to teaching courses

Applications to initial teacher education have dropped below pre-Covid levels, new Scottish figures show – but universities say demand is 'still high'

Research questions ‘extensive’ focus on grammar

Grammar teaching approach does not improve Year 2 pupils' writing, finds study

Teacher strike continues after pension deal rejected

Teachers at 23 private schools are resuming strike action over the Girls' Day School Trust's planned pension scheme changes

NEU withdraws ‘terrible’ Ukraine statement

The teaching union has said the statement has been withdrawn ‘pending further discussion’

Heads ‘least likely’ to know about trans students

Exclusive: Call for headteachers to be more 'aware' of transgender students coming out – so that these young people are better supported in school

Survey reveals huge variation in school meal uptake

Academic calls on secondary schools to listen to pupil feedback to ensure free meals provision is effective

Primary pupils with long Covid more likely to have poor mental health

New data findings have fuelled calls for 'urgent' mental health resources for schools