News

Schools more disorderly and parents less supportive of behaviour rules

Government's annual school behaviour survey also finds pupils feel less safe, with more bullying over their race or ethnicity

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Cyber security

School staff personal data potentially ‘compromised’ in Intradev cyber attack

Data breach reported by IT firm Intradev may have affected data held by School Central Record, which includes addresses...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Holiday activities and food programme

Holiday activities programme extended for another 3 years

Department will use £600m from its three-year spending review settlement to extend scheme to 2029

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
GCSE results 2025

Bauckham concerned over switches from triple to double science GCSE

But too early to 'infer a trend' as data suggests 10,000 switch from three separate qualifications to double award

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
GCSE results 2025

GCSEs 2025: Top grades rise again but Ofqual hails ‘continued stability’

Proportion of GCSEs at grade 7 and above up 1.8 per cent on last year and 5.5 per cent...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Implement uniform branded item cap ‘right now’, Phillipson tells schools

DfE tells schools to 'immediately' limit branded items 'ahead of the new term'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Features

Matt Wrack, general secretary, NASUWT

The new head of the NASUWT has ruled out merging with another union “for now”, insisted his lack of...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Schools ‘over a barrel’ as exam fees rise again

Cost of exams will increase at a greater rate than school funding in 2026, with some provided by AQA...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
PE and sports

Schools locked out of PE premium reporting system can submit returns in September, says DfE

Government confirms schools will receive 'support' to file returns in the new academic year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker