Schools Week

23/08/2024

🎙️ Ofqual chief regulator Sir Ian Bauckham spoke to Schools Week following the release of GCSE results this week

Here’s what he had to say in response to our questions…

Chief regulator Sir Ian Bauckham speaks to Schools Week

22/08/2024

📝 The government’s curriculum and assessment review should look at the policy of forcing pupils who don’t pass GCSE English and maths to re-sit the subjects, the head of exams regulator Ofqual has said

Policy requiring pupils who don't pass English and maths to re-sit under scrutiny again

22/08/2024

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22/08/2024

📝 Top grades in GCSE computing, French and German have leapt by up to 17 per cent after exam boards were instructed to mark the subjects more generously

Grade 7s and above jump up to 17 per cent after exam boards told to treat three subjects more generously

22/08/2024

📈 A rise in those getting top grades and a continued regional gap of more than 10 percentage points are some of the key trends found in this morning's GCSE results...

GCSE results 2024 are out this morning – here’s your handy Schools Week round up of the key trends

22/08/2024

Breaking: The proportion of top grade GCSEs handed out to 16-year-olds in England has increased by just under 1 per cent, with results hailed as 'evidence that we have settled back into a pattern of dependable and trustworthy results'

But education secretary warns of 'unacceptable, entrenched regional disparities'

22/08/2024

📊 'Our current use of data is leading us down dehumanising and potentially dangerous dead-ends'

A proposed new school scorecard is the perfect opportunity to sharpen our blunt data tools

20/08/2024

📝 England’s largest exam board has hiked fees for some of its most popular GCSE and A-level subjects by up to 10 per cent, as its competitors also set inflation-busting prices

Leaders say increases are unaffordable for schools and 'hard to stomach'

20/08/2024

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20/08/2024

🇫🇷 'Last September, we started an extra class for French and Spanish at GCSE because of the growing number of students choosing languages'

Uptake has plummeted nationally, but young people do see languages' value. Here's how we're bucking the trend

16/08/2024

📝 Exclusive: Two exam boards have defended their moderation processes after a slew of teachers claimed their students’ A-level history coursework grades were inexplicably 'annihilated'

Exam boards have defended their moderation processes after a slew of teachers claimed their students' A-level history coursework grades were inexplicably "annihilated"

16/08/2024

Students this year achieved a bumper crop of A-level results, with 20 per cent more A*s than in pre-Covid 2019. So does this means the students were smarter, there has been no learning loss, or that grades are more generous? Schools Week takes a look...

Schools Week investigates the impact of this year's results

16/08/2024

Vocational and technical qualification (VTQ) and T Level results for 2024 were out yesterday – here’s Schools Week’s round-up of the key trends

North West has most T Level awards while engineering students struggle with industry placements

15/08/2024

📉 Top grades have fallen in just two of the most popular A-level subjects, while the rest have recorded rises of up to 10 per cent

What are the subject results? Which had the highest grades? Which had the lowest? We take a look...

15/08/2024

📈 A big rise in those getting three A*s and a continued regional attainment gap are some of the key trends found in this morning's A-level results

Here's your handy Schools Week round up of what you need to know... 🔽

A-level results are out this morning - here's your handy Schools Week round up of the key trends.

15/08/2024

📝 The T Level dropout rate has slightly improved this year, but the proportion of students passing the qualifications has dipped below 90 per cent for the first time

The proportion receiving top grades has also fallen significantly

15/08/2024

Breaking: The proportion of A*s achieved by England’s students has risen by eight per cent as the post-Covid grading standard emerges

The proportion of A*s achieved by England’s students has risen by eight per cent as the post-Covid grading standard emerges

15/08/2024

'A curriculum review that doesn’t take young people’s views into consideration won’t get to the heart of what’s driving behaviour, attendance and mental health ever downwards'

Schools won't make real progress on attitudes, attendance or mental health until young people have better options

13/08/2024

📚 Post-16 students are studying a narrower range of subjects than 20 years ago, a report has found, sparking calls for ministers to address this through the curriculum review

'Decoupling' AS- and A-levels looks to have hit take-up for humanities subjects while the arts have suffered a longer-term decline

13/08/2024

🗣️ 'It will be important not to stigmatise schools which – through no fault of their own – have condition needs which have not been met as a result of the past 14 years of government cuts...'

But union warns against stigmatising schools in disrepair 'through no fault of their own'

13/08/2024

🌱 'It is probably easier and cheaper to pave over green space, but I am certain that in 15 years schools will realise the mistake they made'

A focus on the outdoors and the natural world has reduced anxiety and exclusions at our school

12/08/2024

🥇 Privately-educated athletes 'remain significantly over-represented', despite the number of medallists from fee-paying schools tumbling by almost a fifth...

Privately educated athletes “remain significantly over-represented” in Team GB, despite the number of medallists from fee-paying schools tumbling by almost 20%.

12/08/2024

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12/08/2024

'Exceptional circumstances do not give schools an automatic right to use CCTV in toilets or similar areas. Due diligence is required'

⚖️ partner, Gemma Duxbury

Surveillance cameras can serve a number of positive aims - provided their use is proportionate and transparent

09/08/2024

📈 The absence gap between the most vulnerable schoolchildren and their peers has widened further, increasing 'underlying inequalities' across the sector, has found

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Concerning analysis reveals most vulnerable pupils miss up to 4.4 more days of school than their peers

09/08/2024

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08/08/2024

🏠 School leaders have urged Labour to quickly alleviate child poverty after new figures revealed a record number of youngsters were living in temporary accommodation

Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the ASCL union, slammed the rise as 'a source of national shame'

Headteacher slam the record numbers of children in temporary accommodation as a 'source of national shame'

08/08/2024

❤️‍🩹 'When they return to school, we will need to remind our children of all the love they saw this summer and the light that came through the darkness'

We and our pupils have witnessed horrific scenes - but we can't allow fatalism to define our response

07/08/2024

🤝 'Inequality deprives many young people of experiences proven to enhance mental health and wellbeing, foster crucial skills, and deter violence and antisocial behaviour'

The new government should lean on expertise in the youth sector to deliver its opportunity mission

07/08/2024

⚖️ 'We often see privacy and processing issues being more of an afterthought'

Here's how to ensure you don't end up on the wrong end of an ICO ruling