The Baker Dearing Trust is set to double the membership fee that university technical colleges have to pay, meaning the charity will collect nearly £500,000 annually from the cash-strapped institutions. The charity’s new chief executive, Simon Connell, has defended upping the annual fee, which will increase from £5,500 to £10,000 ... read more

These are the trend tables for A-level Business studies, 2015-2019. Compiled by Education Datalab, the tables show entries have risen, climbing from 29,822 last year to 30,510. The proportion reaching the top grades has decreased, with 3.1 per cent achieving an A*, down from 3.2 per cent last year, and 14.1 ... read more

Prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged today to give schools the “powers they need to deal with bad behaviour and bullying”. In a statement released on A-level results days, Johnson also said the government will “do all we can” to improve funding. Schools are still waiting to hear about the ... read more

These are the trend tables for A-level Chemistry, 2015-2019. Compiled by Education Datalab, the tables show entries have risen, climbing from 50,142 last year to 54,866 this year. The proportion reaching the top grades has decreased, with 7.2 per cent getting an A*, down from 8.1 per cent last year, and ... read more

Brexit and discussions around global warming have contributed to the almost 10 per cent surge in pupils studying political studies A-level, a senior figure at one of the leading exam boards has said. Political studies has seen the largest proportional increase in entries across all A-levels this year. A total ... read more

These are the trend tables for A-level English language literature, 2015-2019. Compiled by Education Datalab, the tables show entries have fallen, from 8,878 last year to 7,479. The proportion reaching the top grades has remained largely the same. This year, 2.9 per cent got an A*, exactly the same as ... read more

Exam boards have insisted they are “confident” in the grade boundaries set for A-level maths after Ofqual launched an investigation following “unusual” changes. Schools Week revealed yesterday that this year’s grade boundaries had been leaked ahead of results day for both the Edexcel and OCR exam boards. They showed a ... read more

These are the trend tables for A-level maths in England, 2015-2019. Compiled by Education Datalab, the tables show entries in maths have decreased slightly, falling from 90,189 last year to 84,965 this year. The proportion of pupils achieving an A* has increased slightly to 16.3 per cent, compared to 15.9 ... read more

To see how your students have done in their A-levels compared to other students nationwide, Education Datalab has produced a handy set of graphs with accompanying analysis. The proportion of A-level entries in England awarded a C or above has decreased to its lowest level since 2015, reaching 75.5 per ... read more

Spanish has become the most popular modern foreign language at A-level in England, overtaking French for the first time. Figures released by the Joint Council for Qualifications today show that 7,932 pupils took Spanish A-level this year, up from 7,591 last year. The boost in popularity for Spanish has pushed ... read more

A-level results are out! Here’s what we know…   1. Overall performance in England* The proportion of A* and A grades has dropped this year by 1 percentage point to 25.2 per cent, the lowest since 2007. Pupils achieving an A* is also down, from 8 per cent last year ... read more

Girls have overtaken boys in the number of entries to take science A-levels for the very first time. Data from the Joint Council for Qualifications shows that entries for girls reached 50.3 per cent this year. Entries for the sciences – biology, chemistry and physics – continued to increase overall, ... read more

The proportion of pupils scoring the top grades at A-level in England has fallen to the lowest level in 12 years. In England this year, 25.2 per cent of pupils received an A or A* grade. This is a full percentage point drop from the last two years, when 26.2 ... read more

New education secretary Gavin Williamson has said teachers should feel “proud of their achievements” as over 200,000 students prepare to find out their A-level results this morning. In one of his first comments since becoming education secretary three weeks ago, Williamson thanked teachers and schools for their hard work. “Everyone ... read more

The grade boundaries for A-levels set by exam boards OCR and Edexcel appear to have been leaked online the day before results day. They show that for the Edexcel maths paper a score of just 14 per cent is needed to pass, with 55 per cent required for an A ... read more