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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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What did the education secretary tell teachers today?
Shirley-Anne Somerville addressed the EIS teaching union today – so what did we learn?
Covid surge in ITT applications ‘could be over’
The average number of daily applications for teacher training courses now back at pre-pandemic levels, analysis shows
GCSEs 2021: Most teachers lose at least a week grading
Eight in 10 teachers think the workload in grading GCSEs and A levels this year has been too much, a 91¶¶Òõ poll shows
Exclusive: 94% of GCSE grading teachers report problems
Like 'climbing Mount Everest with a route drawn on a napkin' – teachers' difficulties grading GCSEs and A levels
Euro 2020: Schools will cheer on our great role models
Football players reach the top of their game by showing qualities you’d want in any pupil: dedication, resilience, focus and ambition
The loss of Sir Kevan Collins is a scandal
Sir Kevan Collins was uniquely suited to lead the catch-up efforts. His resignation will leave schools reeling, writes Jon Severs
Ofsted sex abuse probe ineffective, say 1 in 5 teachers
School staff said they fear the review is another way to shift the blame on to schools
3,000 schools named on sex abuse survivors’ website
But campaigners at Everyone's Invited fear some students may have been ‘silenced’
Schools ‘unfairly blamed’ on rape culture, say teachers
More than 4 in 5 school staff think schools are 'unfairly blamed' for problems that should be addressed by wider society
Teaching assistant workload flagged in new pay talks
Union asks if extra work of teaching assistants during pandemic is sustainable as it re-enters urgent talks seeking 10 per cent pay rise
Delays to teacher pay talks ‘not conducive to recovery’
Scotland’s biggest teaching union says it is ‘frustrated and disappointed’ over slow pace of pay negotiations
New ‘lead teacher’ posts to be introduced in August
But union boss says plans have been ‘watered down’, citing lack of leadership and funding
Tough online law ‘needed to fight pupil harassment’
Tech companies must be compelled to do more to protect pupils under new online harms law, says NSPCC
‘This is the same shambles as 2020 - just more sleekit’
First minister Nicola Sturgeon faces accusations that a second grading crisis is looming in Scotland
Is teacher judgement of grades really being trusted?
91¶¶Òõ Scotland reporter Emma Seith picks apart some of the recent spin about SQA assessment in 2021
Teaching job interviews: how to withdraw on the day
If you go to a teacher job interview and feel that the role just isn't for you, what should do?
‘Huge increase’ in need for pupil mental health support
EIS president calls for better support for pupils who have suffered grief, loss, domestic abuse and hunger
Train teachers on sex abuse on Inset days, schools told
Headteachers should dedicate one of their staff training days to focus on dealing with sexual abuse and harassment among pupils
Sex harassment: School inspections ‘not robust enough’
Independent Schools Inspectorate to share data on schools failing standards with the DfE from September
Assume sexual harassment is in your school, heads told
Nearly 9 in 10 girls say they or their peers are sent unwanted explicit imagery they did not want to see 'a lot' or 'sometimes'
Exclusive: Boys’ sexual misconduct not down to teachers
Most people believe parents, not teachers, should be held accountable for sexual harassment by boys, poll shows
Gibb: ‘We’ve done all possible to protect education’
Schools minister tells MPs that more cash will follow £1.4bn catch-up funding package announced last week
Legal victory hands schools more pupil premium cash
More money now available for children with 'no recourse to public funds' who were granted free school meals during Covid crisis
Heads to lead up to 8 schools under cost-cutting plans
Headteachers would be responsible for children from preschool to upper secondary under council's plan