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A-level results 2018: Further maths

These are the trend tables for A-level maths, 2014-2018. For other subjects, visit our main subject tables page. A-level further maths results: England A-level further maths entries: England

A-level results 2018: Maths

These are the trend tables for A-level maths, 2014-2018. For other subjects, visit our main subject tables page. A-level maths results: England A-level maths entries: England

A-level results 2018: 5 key trends in England’s data

A-level results are out! Here’s what we know… 1. Overall performance in England* The proportion of A* and A grades has stayed the same this year at 26.2 per cent. Last year, it rose by 0.4 percentage points which was the first hike since 2011. On the other hand, A*s are down a little, from […]

A-level results 2018: subject tables

To see how your students have done in their A-levels compared to other students nationwide, Education Datalab has produced a handy set of graphs with accompanying analysis. You can explore trends in national entry and attainment data between 2014 and 2018, for each subject, and overall. Here are the tables for all subjects combined. You […]

Memorable profile interviews of 2017-18 (Or, ‘Why would any school leader invite in a journalist?’)

Schools Week’s features editor Cath Murray looks back on some of the memorable profile interviews from this year Why would any school leader invite a journalist into their school? I would posit four main motivations, co-existing in varying proportions. First, there’s the desire to get the school on the map. Some might be contemplating forming […]

A camera in EVERY classroom: would you do it?

I’m in an engineering lab at a UTC in central Birmingham and it’s all feeling a bit Black Mirror. The popular sci-fi series has an episode called The Entire History of You, where a lawyer plays back his work appraisal for his wife and they analyse every gesture of the panel. In this fictional future, […]

How do we improve diversity in the media without tokenism?

Every summer, Schools Week publishes a count of how many women vs men – and how many BAME contributors – have been represented in the publication’s expert articles, front pages and profile interviews over the school year. Here Cath Murray considers why representation is important, explains how Schools Week has worked to improve it, and presents this […]

Books for teachers and school leaders – summer 2018

Summer 2018 may have seen the driest skies since 1976, but in the world of edu publishing we’ve had such a deluge of books that we haven’t been able to keep up. Here’s a summer reading selection of books that Schools Week hasn’t reviewed, but are definitely worth checking out. For more recommendations, check out […]

Michael Merrick, Deputy head, St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community School

Eight years ago, Michael Merrick and his wife moved from St Andrews, where he was partway through a PhD and the family were eating “beans on toast” every night, to Carlisle, where he took up a teaching job in a local Catholic secondary school. They’ve lived in the town ever since, and he’s now deputy […]