Assessment

The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels

Thursday

25th Sep 2025

How the system forgot about white working-class girls
While the underachievement of white working-class boys has attracted political attention, the struggles of disadvantaged white girls continue to be overlooked. School leaders tell 91¶¶Òõ why this needs to change
Girls in classroom

Saturday

20th Sep 2025

England’s lost mathematicians should concern us all
New research shows how many disadvantaged students have their enjoyment of maths quashed in secondary school, and it’s a problem that everyone should find alarming
Many young people are losing enjoyment in maths, despite strong skills

Tuesday

16th Sep 2025

Teachers across the world see student attention decreasing
Teachers and students also believe self-management skills are vital for the future, but are hard to teach and to learn, Cambridge International survey reveals
Goldfish balloons

Monday

15th Sep 2025

AI’s ‘soulless’ writing can’t match pupils’ authenticity
English teacher Jack Dempsey says nothing beats marking work that shows a student riding the brainwave of an idea
Once upon a time

Friday

12th Sep 2025

International Baccalaureate: what it is and how to teach it
The number of International Baccalaureate schools is growing across the world – here’s a quick guide to the key aspects of the IB’s operations
The International Baccalaureate curricula promotes global citizenship

Thursday

11th Sep 2025

KS2 Sats: disadvantage gap widens
DfE data also shows that girls still perform best overall – but boys are improving in maths more quickly
Boy jumping over a gap
The ‘impossible situation’ of Progress 8 in white, working-class schools
Just seven of the 100 schools with the highest rates of disadvantage and the lowest rates of English as an additional language have a positive P8. With the metric on pause, is it time to rethink it?
Number 8 sinking

Monday

8th Sep 2025

How to use exam results to improve teaching and learning
As heads of department get to work analysing the summer’s GCSE and A-level results, Mark Enser offers his advice for making the process productive, rather than tedious
Analysing Exam results

Friday

5th Sep 2025

Bridget Phillipson is right to focus on the plight of the white working class
But real change will only come with proper policies that look at creating structural change to ensure all in education believe they can succeed, says Vic Goddard
Bridget Phillipson

Thursday

4th Sep 2025

New SQA CEO: Qualifications Scotland will be ‘very different’
But changes ushered in by SQA replacement body Qualifications Scotland will take time, new chief executive Nick Page says in a 91¶¶Òõ Scotland interview
Nick Page SQA chief

Tuesday

2nd Sep 2025

700,000 GCSE students may lack a physics specialist, report warns
The Institute of Physics has called for urgent action to tackle the shortage in physics teachers to stop students missing out
Teacher looking at blackboard

Friday

29th Aug 2025

What one Rust Belt town teaches us about closing achievement gaps
The impact of a literacy programme in Steubenville, Ohio, shows it is possible to boost outcomes for white, working-class pupils – so let’s act now, says Mike Fischer
rusty bridge in Ohio