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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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‘Obviously wrong’ A level grades ‘allowed’ by Ofqual
Ex-chair of exams regulator admits it allowed some results to go through in 2020 ‘knowing that they would need to be changed on appeal’
Plan for grade checks during summer holidays attacked
Union hits out at SQA plans to check grades submitted by schools during the summer holidays
Exams 2022: ‘Another year of TAGs would be intolerable’
Ofqual will consult on exams 2022 – the challenges of teacher-assessed grades must be recognised, says Yvonne Williams
Why the Netflix approach to CPD is trending
The switch to online learning brought a new approach to CPD, too – and Lisa Lockley says this should be here to stay
Call to help teachers suffering with long Covid
‘High incidence’ of long Covid among teachers ‘deeply alarming’, says union calling for it to be seen as 'a disability'
TikTok: the new frontier for safeguarding issues
Is it a fun site to share silly dances, or place where children are putting themselves at risk? Joshua Lowe explores...
Former GTCS chief Ken Muir is made a CBE
Several educators in Scotland are made MBEs in the Queen's birthday honours list
Hamid Patel knighted in Queen’s birthday honours list
Star Academies boss is one of nine multi-academy trust CEOs recognised in honours list
Don’t reform SQA - replace it, says teaching union boss
EIS chief also says that Education Scotland's inspection and school support roles should be split
GCSEs 2022: No fieldwork will ‘bake in’ lost learning
Plans to lift mandatory fieldwork requirements for another year are 'out of kilter' with educational recovery, says charity
What did the education secretary tell teachers today?
Shirley-Anne Somerville addressed the EIS teaching union today – so what did we learn?
Covid surge in ITT applications ‘could be over’
The average number of daily applications for teacher training courses now back at pre-pandemic levels, analysis shows
GCSEs 2021: Most teachers lose at least a week grading
Eight in 10 teachers think the workload in grading GCSEs and A levels this year has been too much, a ÌÇÐÄVlog poll shows
Exclusive: 94% of GCSE grading teachers report problems
Like 'climbing Mount Everest with a route drawn on a napkin' – teachers' difficulties grading GCSEs and A levels
Euro 2020: Schools will cheer on our great role models
Football players reach the top of their game by showing qualities you’d want in any pupil: dedication, resilience, focus and ambition
The loss of Sir Kevan Collins is a scandal
Sir Kevan Collins was uniquely suited to lead the catch-up efforts. His resignation will leave schools reeling, writes Jon Severs
Ofsted sex abuse probe ineffective, say 1 in 5 teachers
School staff said they fear the review is another way to shift the blame on to schools
3,000 schools named on sex abuse survivors’ website
But campaigners at Everyone's Invited fear some students may have been ‘silenced’
Schools ‘unfairly blamed’ on rape culture, say teachers
More than 4 in 5 school staff think schools are 'unfairly blamed' for problems that should be addressed by wider society
Teaching assistant workload flagged in new pay talks
Union asks if extra work of teaching assistants during pandemic is sustainable as it re-enters urgent talks seeking 10 per cent pay rise
Delays to teacher pay talks ‘not conducive to recovery’
Scotland’s biggest teaching union says it is ‘frustrated and disappointed’ over slow pace of pay negotiations
New ‘lead teacher’ posts to be introduced in August
But union boss says plans have been ‘watered down’, citing lack of leadership and funding
Tough online law ‘needed to fight pupil harassment’
Tech companies must be compelled to do more to protect pupils under new online harms law, says NSPCC
‘This is the same shambles as 2020 - just more sleekit’
First minister Nicola Sturgeon faces accusations that a second grading crisis is looming in Scotland