Friday
Need to know: GCSE results, EBacc risk and Inset days
Your roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular content features all the reaction to this week’s GCSE results, plus a warning about the English Baccalaureate, and one school’s novel idea of sending all its staff on tour for Inset day
Teachers’ ‘unconscious bias’ skews marking, study finds
The University of Sussex findings are ‘alarming’, says heads’ union
GCSE results day 2022: 6 key insights you need to know
We round up the main trends from this year’s GCSE results data to give you essential insights for the school year ahead
GCSEs: Modern foreign languages in ‘vicious circle’ of decline
Exclusive: ‘League table accountability pressure’ is leading to a drop in entries for ‘harder’ MFL subjects at GCSE, warns exam expert
Thursday
GCSEs: ‘No reason’ to delay return to pre-Covid grading, says Ofqual boss
Exclusive: Dr Jo Saxton tells 91¶¶Òõ that a final decision will be made on grading for next year’s GCSEs following analysis of today’s results
GCSE results 2022: ‘Stop talking and do some levelling up,’ DfE told
National Tutoring Programme blamed for widening disadvantage gap but Rishi Sunak says it was ‘all that could be done at the time’
National Reference 91¶¶Òõt: No major pandemic decline in English
New NRT results show ‘young people’s English and maths skills are not hugely out of kilter with pre-pandemic levels’, says expert
GCSE results 2022: Bigger fall in top grades at private schools
The proportion of students achieving top marks saw a bigger fall at private schools, while selective schools saw the smallest change
Northern Ireland GCSE results day 2022: key trends
91¶¶Òõ breaks down today’s GCSE results in Northern Ireland after the first full set of exams since 2019
GCSE results 2022: Regional top grade gap wider after pandemic
The gap between the regions with the largest and smallest proportions of top GCSE grades has increased slightly since the last set of exams in 2019
Wales GCSE results day 2022: key trends
The first external GCSE exams since 2019 were held in Wales this year and today the results are published – here’s what you need to know
