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Ofqual doesn’t expect schools to determine teacher-assessed grades this year but has set out what’s needed in case formal exams can’t go ahead in summer

New exam body will continue to both award and regulate qualifications – fuelling accusations that ongoing Scottish education reform is just a ‘rebrand’

The sector must guard against false confidence in simple times table recall as true maths learning, warns E-ACT’s national director for primary education

The personal statement in the university applications process should be replaced with a series of short-response questions to address ‘unfairness’, warns HEPI

From boys doing better than girls, more evidence of the disadvantage gap, and the surprising impact of language on results, we draw out some of the key insights from the Department for Education’s first times tables check

DfE announces multiplication tables results and extra maths hub funding in push towards 2030 Sats target

Less than half of disadvantaged Reception pupils at expected level, DfE data shows

EEF chief executive Professor Becky Francis says ‘tackling education equality’ is the biggest challenge facing school system

A detailed breakdown of this year’s exam results has revealed some important trends for schools. 91¶¶Òõ takes a deep dive into the data

AQA exam board leader rules out running hybrid exams held both on and offline in different schools

A research project by Nesta has uncovered startling data showing that some regions are doing great work closing the disadvantage gap – and that could help other areas to follow suit, as two researchers on the project explain

If we really want to increase uptake of modern foreign languages at GCSE and A level then we need a much bolder plan than Nick Gibb has put forward, says Professor Geraint Jones