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English literature drops out of top 10 most popular A-levels for first time

English literature has fallen out of the top 10 most popular subjects at A-level for the first time. It saw the biggest drop in candidates for a single subject with more than 1,000 entries, falling by 9.4% from 39,492 in 2021 to 35,791 this year. ...

18 Aug 2022 at 12:17

Exams must move on from ‘unsafe sweaty sports halls’, say headteachers

Headteachers have said that assessment methods should move beyond crowds of pupils sitting papers in “sweaty” sports halls. Pepe Di’Iasio, president of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said that GCSE and A-level exams needed ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Schools being ‘thrown to the wolves’ over league table decision

Schools are being “thrown to the wolves” over a decision to publish GCSE performance tables for 2022, headteachers will warn on Friday. Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in Birmingham on ...

11 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Teachers’ leaders call for Government to repair ‘damage’ to pay

Teachers’ leaders have called on the Government to give teachers a pay rise this year, to “urgently repair the damage” to school staff salaries. In a joint statement from unions representing almost all headteachers and teachers in England, ...

04 Mar 2022 at 16:25

Heads fear national tutoring data will be ‘de facto league table’

Headteachers have expressed concern about how published data on schools’ uptake of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) could be used as a “de facto league table”. On Friday, Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi wrote to Geoff Barton and ...

13 May 2022 at 16:55

New crackdown on GCSE questions with middle-class bias

Exam boards have been given new guidance to make their papers more accessible. Tests should use clearer language, a clear and consistent layout, and “source material, context, images and colour in ways that do not disadvantage ...

12 May 2022 at 15:25

Heads condemn ‘confusing’ guidance for schools on living with Covid

Headteachers have criticised “confusing” new Government guidance issued to schools in England on how they should approach “living with Covid” from April 1. Advice published by the Department for Education on Thursday ...

31 Mar 2022 at 13:55

Pupil attendance up but schools ‘at breaking point’ over Covid, say leaders

Pupil absences from school for coronavirus-related reasons have fallen over the past fortnight, the latest Government data shows. In total, 2.2% of pupils were off school for Covid-related reasons on March 31, down ...

05 Apr 2022 at 14:25

Headteachers’ leaders call for return of free Covid tests

Headteachers’ leaders have criticised Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi for his “continued failure” to respond to them over the “acute” Covid situation in schools as they call for a reintroduction of free lateral ...

04 Apr 2022 at 16:25

‘GCSE creative arts subjects at risk of becoming preserve of private schools’

GCSE subjects such as drama, music and media are at risk of disappearing from state schools and being available only to children whose families who can afford to have them educated privately, a headteachers’ ...

24 Aug 2022 at 01:01

Hunt pledges £4.6bn more for schools, saying good education is ‘moral mission’

Billions more will be invested in schools in England over the next two years, the Chancellor has announced as he described ensuring a good education for children as an economic and moral mission. Jeremy ...

17 Nov 2022 at 16:48

Unconscious bias in marking sees lower grades for poor students, study suggests

Unconscious bias in marking could be contributing to the underperformance of children from poorer backgrounds, researchers have suggested. Teachers were more harsh in their grading of students from a ...

26 Aug 2022 at 14:26

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