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12 April 2026

Author: Schools Week Reporter

School support staff have borne the brunt of funding cuts

Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers attended the school cuts lobby of Parliament on Tuesday, to bring the message to MPs that 88% of our schools are seriously underfunded. The fantasy that emanates from the Government that there are huge efficiency savings still to be made, and that it is […]

Sam Twiselton, Director, Sheffield Institute of Education

Sam Twiselton narrates the Carter Review of initial teacher training as a satisfying morality tale of evidence over ideology. The director of the Sheffield Institute of Education played second fiddle to headteacher Sir Andrew Carter as a member of the government-commissioned review in 2014, “sticking to [him] like glue” for months, as the pair toured […]

SPONSORED: How to create a successful digital strategy for schools

There’s no doubt technology has the potential to revolutionise teaching and learning. We hear plenty of stories from teachers who have harnessed digital learning to deliver a more engaging experience. Whether it’s making great education more accessible to everyone with online programmes, or bringing multimedia content into the classroom to spark discussion and creativity, we […]

School performance data: winners and losers

The Department for Education this week published school-level data on GCSE and A-level results, including Progress 8 and Attainment 8 scores. Here, Schools Week looks at the winners and losers from this week’s data dump. A zero-sum game Because of the nature of Progress 8, the national score is designed to be zero. But schools […]

WomenEd invites flexible working ideas for schools

A national networking group for women in education is calling for ideas on how flexible working can successfully be implemented in schools. At their national conference in Sheffield last Saturday, WomenEd national leader Vivienne Porritt announced that she has been invited to contribute to a Flexible Working Summit organised by the Department for Education, on […]

Pearson merges Edexcel exams and textbooks publisher – but insists staff won’t mix

Education firm Pearson has merged its schools publishing and UK exams arms, but insists it has “robust firewalls” to prevent staff developing tests from also writing textbooks. Pearson’s UK schools learning team, which decides the content of its textbooks, has been merged with the Edexcel exam board. However, it has insisted it will continue to […]

The global education race: Taking the measure of PISA and international testing

To reduce the message of this book to its simplest form: PISA tests are carefully designed to be as reliable as possible within real-world constraints but journalists and politicians (yes, those equally despicable creatures) often use them to make invalid claims. This deceptively small book sets out to explain what these constraints are, how the […]

GCSE Results 2017: Spanish

Here are tables of this year’s GCSE Spanish results in England compared with previous years. Spanish GCSE results in 2017, compared with previous years Spanish GCSE results in 2017, compared with previous years: cumulative Percentage of pupils who achieved (at least) each grade   Key Green: Higher than previous year Orange: Same as previous year […]