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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