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Jewish pupils face ‘regular and hostile abuse’

Former Ofsted chief highlights the ‘extraordinary’ security measures required in Jewish faith schools as he reveals the interim findings from his review into antisemitism in education settings

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Views sought on disabled students’ transition to life after school

Survey will assess support available for disabled children and young people in Scotland as they move into adulthood

Fix attendance, mental health and regional gap as priority, de Souza warns DfE

Children's commissioner sets out her priorities for the incoming education ministerial team's 'in-tray' as she launches report on families

GCSEs: Ofqual set to fine exam board £1.2m over failures

Pearson is set to pay affected schools more than £300k in compensation

Call for more mental health training for teachers as pupil anxiety rises

Four out of five secondary school teachers see higher rates of anxiety and depression in students, survey finds

United Learning uses Oak brand to launch remote learning rival

'It is wrong for government to take over Oak resources,' says England's biggest MAT after pulling its content from online learning quango

DfE relaunches Oak with drastic subject cuts as United Learning quits

National academy to relaunch as government quango with major curriculum gaps including key stage 4 English, science and geography

Glasgow secondaries opening during strike ‘abhorrent’, says EIS

Support staff across Scotland are taking strike action next week, but the country's biggest local authority says secondary schools will remain open

Colder classes, staff cuts: why schools face a ‘catastrophic’ winter

Investigation: School leaders say they are 'crying out' for government help as they draw up plans to ration heating, cut staff and delay building work

‘We know how to make inclusion work - so let’s do it’

Children in Scotland chief executive wants cuts to specialist school staff reversed and pupil support assistants given the training they need to flourish

Teachers’ ‘unconscious bias’ skews marking, study finds

The University of Sussex findings are 'alarming', says heads' union

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

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

Strike ballot for Scottish teachers over 5% pay rise

Teachers could strike over latest 'inadequate' pay offer, with the EIS advising members to reject the offer

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

SQA appeals set to be ‘severely delayed’ by strike action

Hundreds of SQA staff plan to walk out for three days in September in a dispute over pay

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

GCSE results day 2022: Results at a glance

This year's GCSE results, broken down by grade, subject and gender

GCSEs 2022: Results expected to show Covid has ‘widened inequality’

It is 'more important than ever' that attainment gaps are 'carefully monitored', expert warns

New push to help Gaelic and Scots languages ‘thrive and grow’

A new consultation has been launched today seeking views on how to raise the profile of the Scots and Gaelic languages

Disadvantage gap: Schools ‘doing all they can’

Call to extend the pupil premium to sixth-formers as research reveals the 'destinations gap' for students after GCSEs