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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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Teachers urged to ‘combat’ anti-vaxxer ideas in class
Stephen Hawking Foundation launches teaching aid to tackle vaccine hesitancy, developed by secondary teachers
GCSEs 2022: ‘No assumption exams will be same as 2019’
Exclusive: More teacher assessment is needed to fix a 'brittle' exam system, teaching union leader says
England Does The Daily Mile: how to get involved
New Daily Mile event is helping children to get active and promoting the importance of physical activity after lockdown
Up to 95% of teaching days lost during Covid crisis
'Huge shock' to system as an average of 60 per cent of normal school days disrupted by pandemic, catch-up tsar says
Swinney ‘bombarded’ by calls for no masks in secondary
Revelation comes after a grilling from a teacher over Covid safety measures in schools at the EIS hustings
GCSEs 2021: Heads condemn ‘scandalous’ grade check plan
Teachers criticise Ofqual plans to give schools 48 hours to produce GCSE and A-level grade evidence
Exclusive: Private schools to cash in on remote lessons
Independent schools are looking to 'monetise' their lockdown experience by selling remote lessons overseas
GCSEs 2021: Most schools prioritise ‘exam-style’ papers
'There's no one-size-fits-all model, and no one thinks any of this is ideal,' say heads over GCSE and A-level grading
What is the point of DfE behaviour advisers? ask heads
The Department for Education should ‘explain the rationale’ behind its behaviour experts before spending a ‘large sum of public money’
Catch-up tsar: Don’t ‘force’ more hours on teachers
Sir Kevan Collins also says he would 'never advocate' increasing teaching time without raising pay
GCSEs 2022: Ofqual undecided on ‘full-fat exams’ return
'Some easement' might be needed to take learning loss into account when exams return,' says Ofqual chief
Sarwar accepts criticism over private school policy
Labour leader asked how stance on independent schools squares with education of his own children
Exclusive: Quarter of Covid fund is recycled DfE cash
Using repurposed money to address Covid crisis is 'completely inadequate to the scale of the challenge', warns union
GCSEs 2021: How Ofqual will police schools’ grading
Exam boards could ask for more evidence of students' work where they have 'serious concerns' about a school's grading
Scottish election 2021: Labour manifesto for education
Labour aims to protect new teachers and boost academic recovery from the pandemic with tutoring plan
Revealed: Where £10m DfE school behaviour cash is going
Seven behaviour experts will cost DfE £1 million over the course of controversial three-year scheme
‘Train teachers to constructively challenge authority’
Scottish education is ‘coasting’ and it is time for ‘greatly increased’ school autonomy, says think tank
‘Investigate serious flaws in England’s Pisa data’
Exclusive: Letter from leading expert calls on statistics watchdog probe into claim UK Pisa data 'biases' were not investigated
Low achievers ‘excluded’ from England’s Pisa data
'Serious flaws' in England's data undermines claims influential global ranking is 'truly representative', warns expert
Concerns over ‘potential bias’ in Scottish Pisa results
Academic calls for more analysis of Scottish Pisa data after finding rise in lower achievers withdrawn from tests
News briefing: What the catch-up tsar wants for schools
From 'billions' in funding to handpicked tutors – all we learned from the recovery commissioner's talk at today's Schools North East event
‘Imperative’ to compensate for Erasmus loss
Erasmus played ‘massively important role’ in creating confident languages teachers, warn linguists
Scottish election 2021: Alba’s manifesto for education
Alba is promising a ‘bonfire of paperwork so teachers can teach’ and a broadening of the curriculum
I’m here to ‘stop bad things happening’, says Collins
Catch-up tsar says some people will accuse him of making 'a disaster' of things but that his 'bigger challenge' is securing resources