Ucas plans to drop personal statements for UK university applicants
Social mobility experts welcome change in which students will instead be asked to answer three questions
May 2024
Fewer pupils in England studying drama and media at GCSE and A-level
Figures show statistics, computing, physics and maths have risen in popularity and languages bouncing back
February 2024
Newham pupils to be offered classical education
Newham Collegiate Sixth Form in London will offer two-year course based on grammar, logic and rhetoric
October 2023
Unions and teachers call Rishi Sunak’s new education plan ‘a misdirected fantasy’
Scrapping A-levels and making English and Maths compulsory to 18 said to be unworkable due to recruitment crisis in subject areas
Rishi Sunak’s new A-level exam is the HS2 of educational reform: it’ll never happen
Simon Jenkins
The rotten system is crying out for a bipartisan inquiry, not a last-minute fudge like the ‘Advanced British Standard’, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Sunak’s plan to ditch A-levels is out of touch with reality, says union
Head of National Education Union says new qualification would need 5,300 additional teachers in England
September 2023
There’s no need for a British baccalaureate
Rishi Sunak’s A-level overhaul plan is undeliverable gimmick, says Labour
Rishi Sunak’s planned A-levels revamp could include baccalaureate
England’s concrete crisis could extend to hospitals and courts, experts say
August 2023
Thousands of pupils may have to start term online as over 100 schools affected by crumble-risk concrete
‘Children without a bed aren’t going to be interested in school’: can England’s north-south education divide be repaired?
Political vision can close Britain’s growing education divide. But who has it?
Justine Greening
A-level students have been failed by Tory ineptitude
State school voices: ‘My A-levels were awful. I feel like I’ve been robbed’
Equality depends on education. England’s class of 2023 have suffered a grave injustice over A-level results
Lee Elliot Major
Record number of UK school leavers gain university places through clearing
Thousands fewer students in England awarded top A-level grades
The Guardian view on England’s class of ’23: failed by the government
Art out, business in and boys closing the gap: what’s changed in this year’s A-levels
