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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