Solutions

How schools with the poorest intakes boosted progress

Heads explain how they improved behaviour, changed leadership and reached outside of the school gates to boost results

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

7 policies from Pearson to make exams fit for the future

Exam board advocates changes to performance measures and a rethink of the English and maths resit policy following major...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Early GCSE results won’t count in 2022 league tables

Qualifications entered early in 2020 and 2021 won't count towards progress 8 scores of current year 11 cohort

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

GCSE results 2021: Top grades rise most at private and free schools

Private and free schools have seen the biggest jump in top grades in this year’s teacher-assessed GCSE results, figures...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Pearson apologises after BTEC gaffe hits schools’ progress 8 scores

Ministers have vowed to amend schools’ progress 8 scores after it was discovered some were as much as 0.2...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Harris schools swamp ESOL exam with native English speakers

A top trust last year entered hundreds of native English speakers into a qualification intended for pupils with English...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

DfE rejects 7,000 requests by schools to wipe pupils’ GCSE scores

The government has refused nearly 7,000 requests from schools for their pupils’ GCSE scores to be wiped from league...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Opinion

A nerd’s guide to today’s key stage 4 data

NFER’s chief social scientist picks apart today’s Progress 8 results… Today’s release of provisional GCSE data makes very interesting...

Expert Contributor
ANGELA DONKIN
Opinion

Did free schools really get the best progress scores?

Free schools came top as the best-performing “type” of school in this year’s Progress 8 tables, but were their...

Expert Contributor
REBECCA ALLEN