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Which A-level subjects recorded the highest grades in 2026?

Maths and English literature both saw a bigger increase in top A-level grades this year than the marginal rise recorded across all subjects

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Covid: Schools told to plan for more remote learning

Department for Education also asks schools to draw up plans to bring back virus testing sites and reintroduce face masks

Exclusive: Ex-academy chief Jo Saxton to lead Ofqual

New Ofqual chief has been working as a policy adviser to Gavin Williamson since leaving her post as CEO of Turner Schools MAT

Exclusive: New GCSE 2021 grades website problems

Data on WJEC site 'not displaying correctly' on deadline day for entering GCSE and A-level grades. Yesterday, OCR's site crashed

GCSE grading: ‘Government should be utterly ashamed’

Exam grades didn’t need to come at the expense of teachers’ wellbeing – that was the government’s choice, says Kevin Courtney

New education committee line-up is revealed

Several new faces on what is now known as the Education, Children and Young People Committee

Call to halt school Covid tests amid ‘serious risks’

Scientists and academics call for daily Covid contact testing trials to be halted in schools amid concerns over Delta variant

Revealed: Huge differences in GCSE grading approaches

Teachers' leaders criticise 'burdensome' system as 91¶¶Òõ poll reveals wide range of methods to grade GCSEs and A levels

Exclusive: 2021 GCSE grades not ‘fair’, say teachers

Two-thirds of A-level and GCSE grading teachers say national process won't give all students the results they deserve

What Ofsted thinks good geography teaching looks like

Inspectorate review warns about ‘relatively poor state of geography education in primary schools’

GCSEs 2021: Schools can’t submit grades as site crashes

Major exam board says problems with portal for teacher-assessed grades may take the rest of the day to fix

‘No evidence’ of school data used to change grades

Teacher judgements are not being changed ‘on the insistence of schools’, says education secretary

Teacher ‘brain drain’ falls for first time since 2012

Fewer teachers have left the profession last year to change career or move into other education systems

What did OECD say when it last scrutinised Scotland?

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's long-awaited report on Curriculum for Excellent is imminent

Leaked exam papers used to ‘determine’ Higher results

Exam papers shared widely on social media are ‘main source of evidence’ for some subjects, finds SQA

Big 5.1% drop in number of new primary pupils for 2021

Falling birth rate and late applications given as possible reasons for the missing 31K new primary pupils

Pandemic sees 21% rise in pupils on free school meals

News of 300K extra children eligible for FSM between January 2020 and 2021 likely to fuel criticism of DfE over pupil premium ‘stealth cut’

Extending school day shouldn’t be a priority, say heads

Most school leaders think one-to-one catch-up tuition should be main focus of Covid recovery effort, new poll shows

Exam cancellations save millions for second year

But while the government has slashed funding to SQA, fees paid by schools and councils remain unchanged

Revealed: What new £25m DfE tutor plan will deliver

Most tutoring under DfE’s flagship NTP will be provided on a 1:3 basis to provide both ‘value for money’ and ‘high impacts’

GCSEs 2022: Ofqual lifts fieldwork requirement

Changes to non-exam assessment requirements carried over to 2022

Naked images can be safeguarding issue, says Spielman

Ofsted chief says responding to instances of sexual harassment such as nude images is a 'difficult issue for schools'

Pupil Covid jabs won’t be recommended, says minister

Decision would be at odds with other countries vaccinating children to avoid school Covid outbreaks

Ofsted: Pandemic has worsened long-term SEND problems

Inspectorate warns that children with SEND have experienced a narrowed education in the past academic year

Exclusive: Parents push teachers to raise GCSE grades

A quarter of teachers grading GCSEs and A levels have come under parental pressure to change them, 91¶¶Òõ research shows