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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

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Longford's Ukrainian pupils voice their experience

A Department of Education video to inform families fleeing to Ireland from Ukraine will feature pupils integrating to a Longford town school. St Joseph’s NS, Longford will be front and centre of the production. The Office of the Ombudsman for ...

19 Sept 2022 at 11:33

Lionesses write to Tory leadership hopefuls over access to football for girls

England’s Lionesses have written an open letter to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss demanding that all schoolgirls have access to a minimum of two hours a week of sport classes. All 23 members of the England women’s team called on the Tory ...

03 Aug 2022 at 17:49

Statistics watchdog queries ‘transparency’ of Government’s academies document

The statistics watchdog has written to the Government over the “transparency” of its document setting out plans for a full academisation by 2030. Ed Humpherson, director general for regulation at the Office for Statistics ...

18 May 2022 at 13:55

Nadhim Zahawi: Department for Education could suffer job cuts of 40%

Civil Service staff cuts of up to 40% are being considered as part of plans for the Department for Education, according to Nadhim Zahawi. The Education Secretary confirmed modelling work to plan for different scenarios ...

22 May 2022 at 11:24

SATs and GCSE results will form basis of Ofsted judgment on curriculums

Ofsted will judge school curriculums based on their 2022 SATs and GCSE results, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced. The DfE said it will not publish KS2 SATs in league tables but that it will produce the ...

25 Mar 2022 at 13:55

Pandemic led to 270 million missed school days – prompting fears over exams

A total of 270 million school days were missed because of Covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic, new figures showed, prompting fears over the impact on exam results in 2022. In the 2020/21 academic year, over ...

24 Mar 2022 at 15:25

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Major building programme planned for St Columba’s College, Stranorlar

St Columba's College in Stranorlar is about to undergo a major transformation with a number of existing structures to be demolished including the original 1969 building. These will be replaced by state-of-the-art ...

17 Mar 2022 at 08:33

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County Derry schools to benefit from £794m funding pot

Five County Derry schools are among a number of schools who have been awarded funding under the Major Capital Works Programme. The programme will see £794m handed to 28 different schools - including Loreto ...

21 Mar 2022 at 17:33

Teachers’ leader calls for crackdown on ‘bad bosses’ in private schools

The head of a teaching union has called for private schools to have their charitable status removed if they continue with “fire and rehire” policies. Speaking at the Nasuwt teaching union’s annual ...

17 Apr 2022 at 13:55

New GCSE in climate science to be launched

A new natural history GCSE will be launched next week, focusing on how pupils can protect the planet. The qualification will be available from September 2025 and is set to be announced by ...

17 Apr 2022 at 17:55

Teachers oppose pay freeze with six in 10 supporting strike action

Most teachers oppose a pay freeze set by the Government for school staff. In a survey by the Nasuwt teaching union ahead of its annual conference in Birmingham, the vast majority of ...

16 Apr 2022 at 16:55

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