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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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Ex-maths teacher to lead academies and skills agency

John Edwards announced as interim chief executive of the ESFA

Exclusive: Teacher training shake-up timings may ‘move’

Government might 'budge' on timescale for shake-up if it means it can 'win on the main argument', says Chartered College leader

Exclusive: ‘Let TAs do teacher training on paid leave’

Largest trade union wants to help fund teaching assistants' to train as teachers, and urge schools to let them use paid leave to train

Exclusive: Heads want advance GCSE topics by autumn

School leaders' union say teachers must be trusted with advance notice of topics in the autumn term

Trolls think they know what teaching is. They don’t

‘Teacher bashing’ relies on the crude stereotype of the lazy teacher who’s only in the job for the long holidays – nothing could be further from the truth

First dip in teacher training applicants since Covid

New UCAS data suggests teacher recruitment boom sparked by pandemic may already be coming to an end

Only 46% schools on catch-up tutor scheme are poorest

Flagship National Tutoring Programme still short of target for pupils reached in 2020-21 by start of July, new stats show

GCSEs 2022: Make geography exams fairer, Ofqual told

A lack of contingency plans for next year's exams is 'unacceptable and deeply disappointing', say heads

GCSEs 2020: How grading U-turn affected students

Ofqual reveals the impact of using grades produced by schools in last summer's GCSE and A levels

Permanent exclusions up 5% before Covid school closures

But overall exclusions and suspensions fell in the year 2019-20 as schools closed to most students in March 2020

Most eligible secondaries offer catch-up summer schools

But experts warn programme is only targeted at a subset of pupils in Year 7 and more Covid catch-up support is needed across year groups

GCSEs 2021: More pressure on teachers in richer schools

More than half of teachers working in deprived areas were unsatisfied with the level of support provided to determine grades this year

GCSEs 2021: Ofqual warned on confusing appeal deadlines

Education committee gets clarification from Ofqual over 'confusing' appeals deadline dates

OCR 42% exam fee rebate ‘big improvement’, say heads

Ofqual urged to review exam board rebate processes to understand 'reasons for large differences' in sums given back

Scottish Tories call for no more masks in schools

The party says face masks in school are ‘no longer a necessity’ – even in communal areas

DfE: ITT shake-up moving quickly to maintain ‘momentum’

Official points to 'interrelationship between speed and quality' when it comes to radically reshaping teacher training sector

New ‘school coordinator’ promised for every secondary

In Scotland, millions of pounds are being invested in the new role: so what is it?

How DfE can ban ‘unsuitable’ school leaders

New DfE guidance sets out how misconduct, criminal offences or failing to uphold British values could see school leaders barred

Covid: Record 1.1 million pupils absent from school

Heads say the Covid data shows stark challenges faced by schools at end of academic year

North of England hardest hit by Covid school absence

New data shows one in four pupils off for Covid-related reasons in the North East

GCSEs: Head’s fear over pressure a grade 10 could cause

Further grades at GCSE could damage pupils’ mental health, says leading private school headteacher

MPs: DfE’s lack of homeschooling data is ‘astonishing’

Commons Select Education Committee calls on government to create a new register of homeschooled children

Schools should publish their exclusions data, say MPs

New report calls on schools to present data on pupil exclusions and the numbers who leave them each year

GCSEs: Covid rules for exams to relax from autumn term

No need for 2m distance from staff in exams from September, new Department for Education guidance says