GCSE results day 2022 live: anger over north-south divide as proportion of top grades and pass rate fall – as it happened
Grades of 7 and above down three percentage points as first pupils to sit exams since before Covid receive results
July 2020
Teachers urge suspension of English school league tables in 2021
Unions and headteachers say it would be unfair to compare performance next year because of lockdown’s effects on pupils
February 2020
Attainment gap widens between disadvantaged pupils and their peers
DfE breakdown of GCSE results in England shows an increase for second year in a row
January 2020
Ofsted boss hits out at schools for continuing to 'game' league tables
Amanda Spielman says some schools in England putting own interests ahead of their pupils’
January 2019
Ban school league tables. They’re not just misleading, they’re harmful
Nuala Burgess
Yet more research has surfaced debunking the authority of league tables, which do nothing to interrogate grammar schools, says Nuala Burgess, chair of Comprehensive Future
December 2018
‘An education arms race’: inside the ultra-competitive world of private tutoring
A growing number of parents and guardians are paying for children as young as four to receive additional tuition. What is fuelling this booming industry?
November 2018
Can Sturgeon’s bid to narrow the ‘educational gap’ survive austerity
Kevin McKenna
The academy trusts whose GCSE students keep disappearing
October 2018
A Gradgrind ethos is destroying the school system
Simon Jenkins
Ofsted inspectors to stop using exam results as key mark of success
September 2018
Refugee children face long delays accessing education in UK
Report finds schools unwilling to take refugees over fears their results will be affected
Labour plans to remove incentive for teachers to 'off-roll' students
Party says ‘unintended rewards’ need to be revoked for excluding students on basis of predicted GCSE results
The rise in school exclusions is a result of the education market
Letters: Readers look at the causes of children being ‘off-rolled’ in a system where exams are the main measure of achievement
June 2018
300 schools picked out in GCSE 'off-rolling' investigation
Ofsted examines allegations that some schools get rid of students who might do badly
January 2018
Toby Young appointment adds to the pressure on universities
Letters: Will the Office for Students be able to deal with serious issues facing higher education, asks Bernie Evans. Also letters from Pete Dorey, Rosalind Garton, Savill Kushner and Gareth Reeves
December 2017
The secret teacher
Secret Teacher: my school won't let students fail – so how will they learn?
Poor primary school pupils increasingly left behind by peers
August 2017
First thoughts
Ignore the panic. There’s little point learning languages at school
Simon Jenkins
Reactionary educators fetishise languages because they are easy to test. A real education is not so easy to quantify says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
May 2017
Election offers the chance for education reforms
Letters: Professor Harvey Goldstein and others on the pressing need for changes in our schools
April 2017
‘A unified voice terrifies the government,’ says teachers’ union leader
Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, on school funding cuts, workload and the creation of a new super-union
