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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