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19 April 2026

Author: Samantha Booth

Ofqual won鈥檛 be able to explain private school grades boost

No private school pupil sat national reference tests this year, which means they are unlikely to show why the sector had the biggest jump in top GCSE and A-level grades. The finding casts doubt on the usefulness of the NRT, which is run every year to monitor over time how well cohorts of pupils are […]

NTP row: Randstad can ‘confiscate a tuition business at will’

National Tutoring Programme contracts could allow new lead provider Randstad to remove its partners and take their business and staff “without compensation”, the Tutors’ Association has warned. Nine leading tutoring organisations are still to sign up to the government’s flagship NTP scheme – a week after it launched – as a contract dispute drags on. […]

All state schools to receive carbon dioxide monitors to help ventilation

The government is going to hand out around 300,000 carbon dioxide monitors to state schools in a £25 million scheme to help improve ventilation from September. All schools and colleges are expected to receive “at least partial allocations” during the autumn term. Where inadequate ventilation is identified, this needs to be addressed without delay, and […]

National Tutoring Programme: Almost 1 in 5 enrolled pupils haven’t started tuition

Almost one in five pupils enrolled in the first year of the government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme are still yet to receive any tuition, with leaders blaming Covid disruption for the backlog. Figures seen by Schools Week show that although the tuition partners arm of the NTP, currently run by the Education Endowment Foundation, has […]

ASCL wants next year’s grades pegged to pre-Covid standards

School leaders’ union ASCL wants next year’s grades to be pegged back to pre-Covid standards, warning it is “difficult to justify… baking in” higher results. General secretary Geoff Barton told members there is no “easy answer” but the union “felt that returning to the grade distribution of 2019 represented the fairest approach for past, present […]

Take ‘urgent action’ on school ventilation, unions tell government

The government must take “urgent action” to invest in ventilation measures in schools ahead of the autumn term, unions have said. Last week, it was revealed that the Department for Health and Social Care is funding a £1.75 million pilot project on the use of air purifiers in schools. However, the research only involves 30 […]

DfE sprinklers plan leaves most schools ‘exposed to fires’, warn campaigners

The government’s proposal to only advise the use of sprinklers in some new schools will leave the majority “exposed to fires”,  education unions and fire safety experts have warned. In a letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson, 23 organisations said it was “incomprehensible” that the Department for Education had snubbed calls to have sprinklers in […]

GCSE results 2021: Poor pupils fall further behind as inequalities exposed

Longstanding gaps between poorer pupils and their wealthier peers likely to achieve the top grades in GCSEs has widened, Ofqual has found. The gap between pupils in private schools and their academy counterparts has grown by more than 6 percentage points, while Gypsy and Roma student have also fallen behind. But the exams regulator warned […]