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A-level results 2019: Top grades in England slump to lowest level in 12 years

The proportion of top A-level grades handed out to pupils in England has fallen to its lowest level in…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Williamson thanks teachers for hard work on A-level results days

New education secretary Gavin Williamson has said teachers should feel “proud of their achievements” as over 200,000 students prepare…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Edexcel and OCR grade boundaries leaked ahead of A-level results day

The grade boundaries for A-levels set by exam boards OCR and Edexcel have been leaked online, a day before…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Government urged to act over declining popularity of A-level English

The government has been urged to launch a review to arrest the plummeting numbers of pupils studying A-level English….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Labour pledges to ditch predicted grades from university admissions

Labour has pledged to scrap university offers based on predicted grades under a major admissions overhaul. Instead, if the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Revealed: 62 private schools withdrawing from Teachers’ Pension Scheme

Sixty-two private schools have told the government this year they plan to withdraw from the Teachers’ Pension Scheme ahead…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Durand Education Trust in legal battle with DfE after refusing to hand over assets for free

A private company associated with the now-closed Durand Academy is embroiled in a bitter legal dispute with the Department…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Edexcel maths A-level leak bigger than first thought, admits Pearson

Questions from an entire Edexcel A-level maths paper were circulated on social media before the exam this year, rather…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ex-NSN director’s government appointment ‘blocked’ by Downing Street

Luke Tryl, the ex-director of the New Schools Network and a former adviser at the Department for Education, has…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Worship in school assemblies is ‘inappropriate’, say half of Britons

Less than a third of people believe acts of worship like prayers are appropriate for school assemblies, prompting calls…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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No sprinklers in any London schools that had fires this year

Not one London school that has had a fire so far this year had sprinklers fitted, the London Fire…

Kathryn Snowdon
Kathryn Snowdon
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DfE urged to give more time for KS2 reading test after word count soars

The government is facing calls to allow pupils more time to sit key stage 2 reading tests after the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker