Assessment

Rise in pupils hitting top marks in times tables tests

Attainment rises in Year 4 maths assessment - as EHCP gap widens slightly

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools

AI: how are schools using the technology in classrooms?

Ministers hope AI can 'transform' teacher workloads, but just 17 per cent of teachers have used the technology in...

Amy Walker
Amy Walker
Sponsored post

Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) programme 

Make every lesson count, changing habits  Our time with learners is limited. We need to make the best use...

SSAT
SSAT

The Future of Assessment

A free FE Week and Schools Week supplement in partnership with NCFE, diving into assessment reform

Find out more
SATs

‘Soul destroying’: SATs markers say pay slashed under Capita

Markers paid as little as 4p for each batch of questions

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Education Reform

Speed read: ASCL’s blueprint to tackle education’s ‘entrenched injustice’

The school leaders’ union wants wide-ranging reforms, warning studies suggest rich-poor attainment gap ‘may never close’.

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
SATs

Year 6 SATs don’t make children unhappy, says study

Researcher says findings counter 'conventional narratives', but critics question research based on 2012 data

John Dickens
John Dickens
Opinion

Why we shouldn’t rush to scrap GCSEs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

We need a debate about the future of education post-Covid-19, but that shouldn’t mean a rush to abolish things...

Freddie Whittaker
TIM OATES
News

Computer science GCSE will be exam-only until 2020

Computer science GCSEs will continue to be assessed purely on exams until 2020 after tasks from the test were...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson