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Prestigious sixth-form drops ‘sir’ and ‘miss’ over cultural misogyny

The term ‘miss’ conjures up images of Edwardian shop assistants and plays into a ‘gendered view’ of the world, according to Harris Westminster Sixth Form’s executive principal

43% rise in pupils caught cheating after exams return

Student penalties up more than two-fifths in 2022 compared to 2019, with mobile phones making up the majority of exam offences

IfS: 1 in 4 poorer pupils could lose out under proposed student loan grade thresholds

Around 1 in 10 recent education undergrads would also have been excluded, think tank warns

20,000 students hit as UCAS glitch rejects university offers

Tens of thousands of students faced more stress this morning as a glitch in UCAS’s system automatically rejected their university offers. Around 100,000 students have until midnight today (June 10) to make their decisions through the admissions service’s portal. But as many as one in five received emails from UCAS in the early hours of […]

Post-qualification admissions: Ofqual says university reforms risk ‘unacceptable’ results delays

Ofqual has warned exam results could be delayed and students miss out on places if the government relies on slashing marking time to deliver a radical overhaul of university admissions. The regulator said post-qualification admissions reforms would rely on results for level 3 qualifications, including AS and A Levels, being released up to three weeks […]

Students stage underground poster campaign against school exclusions

An anonymous group of south London students have chosen GCSE results day to stage a protest about school exclusions, by replacing posters on the Northern line with images of an underground line running from ‘School to Prison’. The imaginary train line pictured on the posters travels from being ‘sent out of class’, through ‘detention’, ‘isolation’, […]