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Progress 8 scores plummet at schools that used controversial ECDL qualification

Schools that entered large numbers of their pupils for the English computer driving licence have seen their progress scores…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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ASCL launches inquiry into GCSE results as 57% fail to get ‘strong’ pass

The Association of Schools and Colleges has launched an inquiry into GCSE results that the union claims leave pupils…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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A-level results 2018: Scores stable, but fewer students get top grades

The average point score per entry for A-levels, as a grade, remained stable at C+ this year, but the proportion…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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School league tables 2018: Free schools soar, and 6 more key findings

The government has released provisional key stage 4 data this morning that reveals how schools have fared in headline…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Proportion of poor pupils in education, employment or apprenticeships falls

The percentage of poorer pupils who are progressing into education, employment or apprenticeships has dropped, destinations data released this…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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EBacc results 2018: Entries rise slightly

The proportion of pupils in England entering the EBacc has increased slightly this year. New provisional GCSE results data…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Warning over future of education research as number of postgrad students drops 10%

The “long term health” of education research in the UK is under threat by a decline in the number…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Ministers lobby for change in UTC admission age

The government is lobbying those in charge of controversial university technical colleges to move away from recruitment at 14,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Former Perry Beeches ‘superhead’ Liam Nolan to face misconduct hearing

The former chief executive of the collapsed Perry Beeches academy trust has been hauled before a teacher misconduct panel….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted backs education committee’s call for new ‘inclusion measure’

Ofsted has thrown its weight behind the parliamentary education committee’s call for a new “inclusion measure” that would incentivise…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Doubts over DfE’s new pupil data sharing policy

The capacity of the Office for National Statistics to meet a deluge of applications for national pupil database information…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Emphasis of Ofsted inspection to shift from classroom

The emphasis of Ofsted inspections will “shift up the management structure”, but lesson observations will continue because teachers want…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter