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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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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

Schools ‘should be closed’ when support staff strike

EIS teaching union says schools' 'default position' should be that they close when support staff strike in nine council areas next month

5 reasons ‘executive heads’ plan is likely to be rejected

The title of headteacher ‘holds emotional weight’ and changing it ‘will never be popular’, finds consultation

A levels: ‘Harsh’ to claim private schools fiddled grades

Independent schools only 'middle of the road' for hiking 2021 grades compared with other schools and colleges, finds new research

GCSEs 2022: Exams revolution is ‘the last thing schools need’

Calls to overhaul the exams system 'exaggerate the benefits', warns report ahead of GCSE results day

School support staff to be balloted over whether to accept pay deal

GMB will ballot members on £1,925 flat rate pay rise offer and warn some staff are 'on the brink of poverty'

GCSEs 2022: EBacc is ‘done for’ as MFL take-up stalls, says exams expert

New report says lack of students taking language GCSEs will lead to the government's flagship English Baccalaureate targets being 'quietly phased out'

A levels 2022: Stem favouritism ‘disproportionate’, DfE warned

English Association chief warns over government's support for maths and sciences over arts subjects after subject falls out of top 10

Exclusive: Just half of new primary teachers expected to find work

Highly skilled staff are ‘languishing’ on supply lists because the Scottish government is ‘skimping’ on funding, says union boss

A-level results: DfE must sort regional attainment gap - Ofqual chair

Ian Bauckham said no "right-thinking person would not be concerned" by regional disparities in today's A-level results

A-level results reaction: ‘Education recovery is not done’

In response to this year's A-level results, experts call on Ofqual to add a further stage to its two-step return to pre-pandemic grading levels – amid fears of a widening disadvantage gap

Scottish teaching unions react with anger to ‘weak’ pay offer

Strike action looms as latest offer is described as ‘insulting’ by the country’s largest teaching union

A levels 2022: English lit drops out of top 10 most popular subjects

Entries for English literature A level fell by 9.4 per cent this year, new figures have shown – after a call for government action to 'stop the spiral of decline'

A levels 2022: Top grades fall at private schools

Despite the fall, independent schools still received the highest proportion of A* grades

A-level results 2022: Regional top grade gap wider after pandemic

The gap between the regions with the largest and smallest proportions of top A-level grades has increased since the last set of exams in 2019

Northern Ireland A-level results day 2022: key trends

We look at the latest A-level results in Northern Ireland, after the first full set of summer exams since 2019

Wales A-level results day 2022: key trends

It is the first time Welsh students have sat external A-level exams since 2019 – so how did they do?

A levels 2022: Results at a glance

The latest A-level results broken down by gender, subject and grades

Teacher training taskforce launched to tackle ‘cold spots’

Exclusive: DfE to set up new teacher training taskforce in a bid to persuade more providers to expand to stop parts of the country becoming ITT 'cold spots'

Scottish education’s strength? It shapes hearts and minds

Attainment is important but so are ‘the kind of citizens you are creating’, says government adviser and Canadian educator Dr Avis Glaze

National Audit Office to examine ‘value for money’ of catch-up schemes

The spending watchdog will look at whether the National Tutoring Programme is achieving value for money

A levels 2022: ‘Severe concern’ over continued decline in English entries

ASCL warn that the decline has been influenced by the 'grind of memorising large amounts of traditional texts' at GCSE

New route opens up for school leavers with complex needs

The new college will plug a gap in provision that means Scottish students with complex needs can be forced to move to England

GCSEs: ‘Virtually no change’ in disadvantage gap over 20 years

Experts have said that if the 2030 Sats attainment targets are to be met, the government must prioritise education