Sunak to replace A-levels with ‘Advanced British standard’ PM wants to merge A-levels and T-levels into new single qualification for sixth formers to study five subjects including ‘some form’ of English and maths
Ofsted switches back to exam results ‘as a starting point’ 2022-23 results data will be used to inform inspection in the ‘normal way’
EBacc: DfE plans league table shake-up to ‘incentivise’ take-up Government to ‘explore making changes to the headline EBacc attainment measure’
Educate parents about progress 8 to narrow attainment gap Study finds parents do not consistently apply to their ‘most effective’ school
Language hubs: 19 schools named in first round of £15m reboot Expansion of pilot programme will include a £400k scheme to boost take-up of German
OCR admits controversial GCSE computer science paper was ‘more difficult’ But top results remained higher than pre-Covid levels after grade boundaries were lowered
GCSE results 2023: Which subjects saw the biggest drop in top grades? Top grades in some GCSE subjects have fallen below pre-Covid levels, despite an overall near return to 2019 benchmarks
GCSE results 2023: Top grades fall 17% as 2019 levels almost restored The proportion of 9, 8 and 7 grades issued in England is now within 0.6 percentage points of the last pre-pandemic exams