Schools

Influencers may be behind boom in career-focused subjects, says exams chief

Economics and business studies see rise in entrants as exam board boss suggests ‘entreprenurial’ students want to emulate social…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

A-level results 2025: Which subjects had more top grades?

Which subjects had the most top grades? And which saw the biggest rises this year? Schools Week looks at…

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
News

T-level results 2025: Pass rate up and dropouts down

Proportion receiving top grades stays static

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
A-level results 2025

A-level results 2025: 8 key trends in England’s data

Your handy Schools Week round up of the key trends in this year’s A-level results

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
A-level results 2025

A-level results 2025: Top grades rise slightly again this year

Ofqual says results rise could be because this year’s cohort made ‘better post-16 choices’ – but regional gap grows

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Secure schools

Young offenders to be pulled out of country’s first secure school

Charity running the school says youngsters will be moved to other facilities until faulty doors fiasco resolved

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson


Movers and Shakers

Tim Coulson named new DfE regions group director general

Unity Schools Partnership CEO announced as John Edwards’s replacement in key DfE position

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
GCSEs and A-levels

Inside the exams factory: how GCSE and A-level grades are made 

Each year, more than one million youngsters sit exams that often shape their career paths. But how does an…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Breakfast clubs

DfE seeks business sponsors to boost flagship breakfast scheme impact

Government says industry providers can help schools ‘make greater impact’ – and promises ‘promotional rights’ in return

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas
Schools policy

Gibb’s reform reflections: EBacc regrets, academy lessons and ‘trad’ label misgivings

The long-serving former Tory schools minister looks back at his reforms in a new book. Here are 13 interesting…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Schools

Chartered College plans to appoint ‘professors of teaching’

The professional body for teachers hopes the roles can ‘raise the status and prestige of the profession’

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
News

Attendance rates improve this year, but severe absence worsens

Government lauds improvement in attendance this year, but number of pupils with ‘severe absence’ worsens

Ruth Lucas
Ruth Lucas