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The curriculum and assessment review should give schools permission to create an offer that truly delivers all a child needs, argues Liz Robinson

The government also announces plans for ‘V-level’ vocational qualifications, along with a duty on schools to support students into post-16 study

Professor Becky Francis tells the Confederation of School Trusts conference that only 50 out of 3,000 17-year-olds who had achieved a grade 2 in GCSE maths went on to pass in the most recent round of resits

There were over 200 cases of cheating or misbehaving among students sitting exams and taking national qualifications in 2024-25, up from 173 the previous year

With the curriculum and assessment review due to publish its recommendations ‘very soon’, chair Becky Francis writes exclusively for 91¶¶Òõ about what she has learned through the process

A mandatory reading test for Year 8 students will also be introduced by the end of this parliament, Bridget Phillipson confirms

Looking at how Chicago turned around its struggling schools offers insights into how the curriculum review could unlock transformation here, says trust CEO Becks Boomer-Clark

Students already had the possibility of consulting drama texts in the exam but, in future, all Cambridge IGCSE literature in English papers will be open book, including prose

Scottish first minister tells UK Covid inquiry that ministers took an ‘arm’s-length’ approach to alternative qualifications and assessment during pandemic

The latest phonics screening check data is further proof that teaching reading is not ‘done’ at the end of KS1, writes Claire Heald

DfE data from the phonics screening check results also shows that the gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers has grown slightly

The reform of Scotland’s qualifications body has often been dismissed by critics as little more than a name change – true or not, rebranding will be needed. So how much will this cost?