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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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‘Heads must not be made to police student Covid jabs’

School leaders have welcomed new jab plans but a union has said that schools should not be responsible for promoting or policing take up

Face masks still required even after teen vaccinations

Secondary school students in Scotland still required to wear masks even if Covid vaccinations are extended to 16- and 17-year-olds

Williamson ‘not involved’ in school shutdown decisions

A series of 'crucial' calls on Covid education policy were made by Downing Street alone, report finds

GCSEs: Lack of plan B on Covid was ‘unforgivable’

A damning new report also warns the government did not learn lessons on schools from the first Covid lockdown

GCSEs 2021: Heads call for DfE to top up exam rebates

Heads' confidence in exam boards has been 'dented' by 'muddled' rebate process

Pearson Edexcel confirms £31m exam fee rebate

Board will return 33 per cent of its fees after Covid led to summer exam cancellations

Exclusive: 9 in 10 teachers think pay freeze is unfair

Teaching union leader says pay freeze shows 'contempt' for teachers' work in the pandemic

Why the Globe is offering antiracist Shakespeare CPD

Lucy Cuthbertson, one of the new co-directors of education at Shakespeare's Globe, explains why she's helping teachers discuss the Bard through the lens of major social trends

Heads criticise Williamson’s ‘typical’ Latin focus

Education secretary can talk 'ad infinitum' about Latin – but decline in modern languages should be top priority, say leaders

Thousands of teenagers to get jab before school return

Covid jabs will be offered to around 4,000 young people in Scotland aged between 12 and 17 before 16 August

What proportion of teachers are leaving the profession?

National data shows higher numbers of teachers leaving the profession in Scotland, but overall teacher numbers are also up

Ex-maths teacher to lead academies and skills agency

John Edwards announced as interim chief executive of the ESFA

Exclusive: Teacher training shake-up timings may ‘move’

Government might 'budge' on timescale for shake-up if it means it can 'win on the main argument', says Chartered College leader

Exclusive: ‘Let TAs do teacher training on paid leave’

Largest trade union wants to help fund teaching assistants' to train as teachers, and urge schools to let them use paid leave to train

Exclusive: Heads want advance GCSE topics by autumn

School leaders' union say teachers must be trusted with advance notice of topics in the autumn term

Trolls think they know what teaching is. They don’t

‘Teacher bashing’ relies on the crude stereotype of the lazy teacher who’s only in the job for the long holidays – nothing could be further from the truth

First dip in teacher training applicants since Covid

New UCAS data suggests teacher recruitment boom sparked by pandemic may already be coming to an end

Only 46% schools on catch-up tutor scheme are poorest

Flagship National Tutoring Programme still short of target for pupils reached in 2020-21 by start of July, new stats show

GCSEs 2022: Make geography exams fairer, Ofqual told

A lack of contingency plans for next year's exams is 'unacceptable and deeply disappointing', say heads

GCSEs 2020: How grading U-turn affected students

Ofqual reveals the impact of using grades produced by schools in last summer's GCSE and A levels

Permanent exclusions up 5% before Covid school closures

But overall exclusions and suspensions fell in the year 2019-20 as schools closed to most students in March 2020

Most eligible secondaries offer catch-up summer schools

But experts warn programme is only targeted at a subset of pupils in Year 7 and more Covid catch-up support is needed across year groups

GCSEs 2021: More pressure on teachers in richer schools

More than half of teachers working in deprived areas were unsatisfied with the level of support provided to determine grades this year

GCSEs 2021: Ofqual warned on confusing appeal deadlines

Education committee gets clarification from Ofqual over 'confusing' appeals deadline dates