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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