- Edexcel grade boundaries leaked ahead of A-level results day
The grade boundaries for A-level exams set by the exam board Edexcel have been leaked online, a day ahead of the results being released. The sharing of information flies in the face of a decision made by all exam boards last August to only make the grade boundaries for GCSE ... read more - Primary schools relying on fundraising to deliver basic education
More than four in ten Kent primary schools are dependent on fundraising to deliver basic education for their pupils new research has found, and one charity believes the problem stretches nationwide. In 2018, 43 per cent of primary schools in Kent reported that they were reliant on fundraised income to ... read more - Allow UTCs and studio schools to select pupils, argues Toby Young
University technical colleges and studio schools should be allowed to select pupils on the basis of aptitude, a controversial new report authored by Toby Young has argued. Furthermore, such a move would be legal and would only require a change in policy, according to ‘Technically gifted: How selection can save ... read more - SATs results annulled at ‘outstanding’ London primary school
Pupils at a top primary school in west London have had their SATs maths exams annulled after an investigation by the Standards and Testing Agency. The agency investigated in response to allegations of “maladministration” of the tests at St Matthew’s Church of England Primary School in Hillingdon, which was rated ... read more - DfE loses landmark legal challenge on exclusions of pupils with autism
Schools must prove it was “proportionate” to exclude an autistic pupil on the grounds of challenging behaviour, after the Department for Education lost a landmark legal challenge. The upper tribunal, the court that deals with appeals against school exclusions, has ruled the government’s equality laws are unlawful and discriminate against ... read more - Discovery Learning trust has funding axed after pupil forgotten on school trip
A single academy trust will have its government funding terminated for good after its only school was plunged into special measures and also left a pupil behind on a school trip. Discovery Learning, which runs the specialist science and technology Discovery School in Newcastle, will have its government funding cut ... read more - Black pupils less likely to get places at church schools than white pupils, research shows
Pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds and disadvantaged pupils are less likely to gain a place at church schools than their white British counterparts, new research reveals. For the first time, the demographic backgrounds of families and their school choices have been analysed. Researchers at Lancaster University were commissioned by the ... read more - Abuse inquiry: Catholic schools prioritised ‘reputation’ over child protection
Two leading independent Catholic schools have been heavily criticised for failing to prevent pupils from being subjected to “appalling” sexual abuse and caring more about protecting the reputation of staff than the welfare of pupils. A 200-page report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has said the “blatant openness” ... read more - Mental health reforms don’t realise school is source of poor well-being, say pupils
Planned reforms to mental health services do not acknowledge that school itself is a huge cause of poor mental health for young people, pupils have warned. Pupils at three organisations involved in mental health, Young Minds, Youth Access and the National Children’s Bureau, were commissioned by the Department for Health ... read more - Sector leaders unite against T-level plans that would force pupils to wait a year for a retake
Sector leaders have urged Ofqual to reconsider its proposal to only allow T-level exams in the summer, as it means pupils would have to wait a whole year for retakes. One representative body warned the plan represents a “significant capacity risk for the whole exam system” while also being “overly ... read more - Schools need to boost staff and governors’ data literacy, research finds
Schools must focus on boosting the data literacy of newly or recently qualified teachers and governors in order to improve their practice, new research has found. The report on ‘School cultures and practices: supporting the attainment of disadvantaged pupils’, released today, compared schools in London with those outside of the capital, ... read more - Revealed: Harris school praised by ministers ‘overaided’ pupils in SATs
A Harris primary school held up by ministers as a shining example of academisation “overaided” pupils in their SATs, an investigation has concluded. Pupils at Harris Academy Philip Lane in north London were given too much help in their English reading and maths reasoning SATs papers, the Standards and Testing ... read more - Baker clause update: DfE gears up to start ‘direct intervention’ in schools
Schools could face “direct intervention” from the Department for Education from September if they have failed to allow further education providers to promote vocational education to their pupils. The move is a part of a crackdown on non-compliance with the controversial ‘Baker clause’, an amendment to the 2017 Technical and ... read more - Citizenship fee causes schools to miss out on pupil premium cash
Schools are missing out on millions of pounds in pupil premium cash because their poorest children cannot afford British citizenship, Schools Week can exclusively reveal. About 120,000 pupils in the UK are estimated not to have British citizenship despite many of them being born in the country. This is because ... read more - Hinds calls on tech companies to create new solutions to support teaching
Education secretary Damian Hinds is calling on technology companies to help improve teaching and cut teacher workload, ahead of plans to develop new online resources for schools in the autumn. From September, the Department for Education (DfE) will work with the Chartered College of Teaching, the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) ... read more