News

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

Recent
Most read
Most shared
Recent
Most read
Most shared

‘Don’t overdo the doom’ on lockdown reading decline

Primary pupils have lost the equivalent of two months' reading ability over lockdown, according to new report

Heads back call for breakfast club expansion

Union pledges support for 'expanded' breakfast clubs after Labour calls for them to provide 'additional learning time'

GCSE languages plan could lower standards, expert warns

Proposals for new languages qualification will leave pupils ‘able to talk about almost nothing’ panel is told

‘Not enough’ poorer pupils have tutors, says Oak head

Government is 'pushing' higher targets for disadvantaged children reached by catch-up tutoring, says NTP leader

Could sewage help to stop Covid outbreaks in schools?

Scottish government advisers looking into wastewater monitoring as an ‘early warning system’

Are teachers’ lunch breaks under threat now, too?

We've all adapted to new timetables this year – but we need to make sure our lunch breaks aren't lost, says Clare Owen

Primary school attendance back to pre-pandemic levels

Teacher absences are now the lowest they have been since last October, new DfE attendance data shows

Covid leaves Reception pupils struggling, teachers warn

Nearly all schools involved in new Covid impact study report children are struggling with language and communication

GCSEs 2021: Ofqual ‘conscious’ of teacher workload

Ofqual justifies plan to collect grading samples from all schools, which has been criticised as 'scandalous' by heads

Exclusive: Half of catch-up tutoring yet to start

National tutoring scheme says schools have 'flexibility' to delay tuition – but heads criticise 'overcomplicated' system

Schools to share £1.8bn for building improvements

Funding for school maintenance and repairs rises by 20 per cent – but this follows cuts to wider school capital budget

Why must we wait for racial equity progress in schools?

Politicians are 'painfully slow' in getting behind anti-racism work in schools, says Khadija Mohammed

Gavin Williamson attacks school funding ‘moans’

But heads say the government is 'giving with one hand and taking away with the other' over pupil premium changes

Schools can bid for summer holiday catch-up fund

Secondary schools urged to bid for a share of £200m to run summer schools this year to tackle Covid disruption

Teachers urged to ‘combat’ anti-vaxxer ideas in class

Stephen Hawking Foundation launches teaching aid to tackle vaccine hesitancy, developed by secondary teachers

GCSEs 2022: ‘No assumption exams will be same as 2019’

Exclusive: More teacher assessment is needed to fix a 'brittle' exam system, teaching union leader says

England Does The Daily Mile: how to get involved

New Daily Mile event is helping children to get active and promoting the importance of physical activity after lockdown

Up to 95% of teaching days lost during Covid crisis

'Huge shock' to system as an average of 60 per cent of normal school days disrupted by pandemic, catch-up tsar says

Swinney ‘bombarded’ by calls for no masks in secondary

Revelation comes after a grilling from a teacher over Covid safety measures in schools at the EIS hustings

GCSEs 2021: Heads condemn ‘scandalous’ grade check plan

Teachers criticise Ofqual plans to give schools 48 hours to produce GCSE and A-level grade evidence

Exclusive: Private schools to cash in on remote lessons

Independent schools are looking to 'monetise' their lockdown experience by selling remote lessons overseas

GCSEs 2021: Most schools prioritise ‘exam-style’ papers

'There's no one-size-fits-all model, and no one thinks any of this is ideal,' say heads over GCSE and A-level grading

What is the point of DfE behaviour advisers? ask heads

The Department for Education should ‘explain the rationale’ behind its behaviour experts before spending a ‘large sum of public money’

Catch-up tsar: Don’t ‘force’ more hours on teachers

Sir Kevan Collins also says he would 'never advocate' increasing teaching time without raising pay