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A-level results 2026: regional divide grows again

Today’s A-level results for England also reveal increases in the top grades awarded and in the overall pass rate

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Call for Ofsted inspections to focus on climate change

Plea to put climate change at the heart of the curriculum as the DfE is set to consult on new school sustainability strategy

True resilience means knowing when to give up

A teacher's ability to plough on through difficulties is overrated – to be resilient you must know when to take a pause, says Susan Ward

Warning mental health crisis will block school catch-up

Major academy trusts and private schools in joint call for action on mental health support in response to Covid pandemic

Covid: How the pandemic shook the schools system

Snapshot survey reveals the scale of the challenges faced by schools during the Covid crisis

Pupils urged to take Covid tests to help save Christmas

Secondary pupils urged to get tested before the end of half term as new figures shows cases rose in the week before half term

Heads condemn DfE plan to cut school improvement fund

Scrapping council school improvement grant is 'thinly veiled attempt' to turn up heat on schools to become academies, heads warn

Round-up: the Budget, energy bills and teaching trends

91¶¶Òõ presents its round-up of the biggest news and features articles in the world of education this week

Revealed: How the second lockdown widened learning loss

The disadvantage gap had widened by 6 per cent for primary pupils and 7 per cent for secondary students by the end of the second Covid lockdown

Year 8 ‘bounce back’ in writing despite high Covid rate

Year group with highest positive cases show signs of recovery from 'learning decay'

‘No tokenistic diversity in new history curriculum’

Schools minister confirms DfE is preparing new model history curriculum, which will focus on diversity as an 'important aspect'

Why teacher workload is the scariest thing of all

With Halloween looming, teacher Glen Fraser shares 3 tips to help teachers cut their terror-inducing mountains of work

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Heads’ budget warning over soaring winter energy bills

Open windows and soaring energy costs could hit school bills, heads warn as Labour claims costs could go up by £80m

Heads sound ‘alarm bell’ over new teacher pay funding

Warning of 'stretched budgets' as think tank says teacher salaries will take up a 'large share' of school funding settlement

Huge drop in school at-risk referrals during Covid

Figures prompt warning about vulnerable pupils 'dropping off the radar' during the pandemic

Behaviour tsar hits out at bid to ban isolation rooms

Banning isolation rooms in schools would make classrooms unsafe, warns DfE adviser

Sturgeon rejects facial recognition tech in schools

First minister says the use of facial recognition technologies is not ‘proportionate or necessary’ in schools

Teacher pay offer dismissed as ‘wholly unacceptable’

Union criticises teacher salary offer that is causing 'growing anger in schools' and would represent a real-terms pay cut

WATCH: Nobel winner’s COP26 message for old schools

Everyone can have an impact on climate change, Nobel winner David MacMillan tells pupils in his home country of Scotland

New education director for Scotland’s biggest council

Long-serving Glasgow education director Maureen McKenna will retire at the end of the year

Need to know: What the Budget means for schools

From Covid recovery to pay rises – everything teachers and leaders need to know about today's school spending plans

We won’t scrap exams, says Somerville

The Scottish government supports qualifications reform – but externally assessed exams will remain, says minister

‘Sunak’s cheap catch-up will cause damage for years’

Teachers and heads say £1.8 billion in new funding is catch-up 'on the cheap' and 'nowhere near' enough

Budget: Covid catch-up fund boosted by £1.8bn

But recovery funds fall far short of the £15bn that the government's former catch-up tsar said was needed