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Urgent action needed to save MFL from ‘extinction’, claims expert

GCSE entries to modern foreign languages continued to fall this year, in a dropoff that could even see some…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

GCSE results 2017: Exam reform leaves 18-point gap between grades 4 and 5

Half of all grades in the reformed GCSEs were a grade 5 – a “strong pass” – or above,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

GCSE results 2017: Boys benefit again in reformed subjects

Boys have closed the gap on girls achieving top grades in English literature and language, and moved further ahead…

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
News

GCSE results 2017: The 7 most interesting things we have learned

GCSE results are out and there is a lot of noise in the statistics. Wales and Northern Ireland have…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

GCSE results 2017: More than 2,000 pupils scored 9s in all three reformed exams

About three per cent of grades awarded to pupils were the highest available in the newly reformed GCSE subjects….

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Costs of rebrokering academies to be published for first time

The mounting costs of passing failing schools between academy trusts are finally to be revealed by the Department for…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Heads unhappy with lack of government reassurance on new GCSEs

School leaders want “public acknowledgement” of the challenges this year’s reformed GCSEs have presented to teachers and pupils, but…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

BREAKING: Eileen Milner appointed as CEO of Education and Skills Funding Agency

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has appointed a permanent chief executive to replace Peter Lauener. Eileen Milner, who…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Learndirect debacle shines light on £2m teacher test contract

The future of online tests for trainee teachers is hanging in the balance, as the only provider which holds…

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
Exam results, News

GCSE results 2017: Subject tables

Please note: the GSCE results tables for 2018 will be available here from 9:30 am on Thursday, 23 August, 2018….

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
News

New GCSEs dogged by ‘long tail of underachievement’

England’s efforts to boost its standing in global education rankings by overhauling the way it grades maths and English…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

EBacc improves pupils’ chances of studying A-levels

Studying subjects in the English Baccalaureate increases the likelihood that a student will stay on at school and sit…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson