The number of students achieving GCSEs in technical and creative subjects along with religious education has declined yet again.
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GCSE results
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New research shows what subjects you study at school make a big difference to the type of university you end up attending.
Analysis and Comment
Children as young as eight or nine could be taught in a more adult, analytical way.
Overall, participation in STEM careers activities is low, with less than 30% of UK 11- to 14-year-olds reporting having taken part in 2017.
Only 16% of predicted grades are accurate and the current system penalises disadvantaged students and those from minority backgrounds.
Children feel lonelier and spend less time outside than ever before. New research is showing how reconnecting children with the community can help.
Study shows how to help students achieve their full potential.
Integrating private schools into the state system will offer little benefit to socially disadvantaged pupils. Addressing the inequalities between state schools should be the focus.
Obesity crisis: pizza, pastries, chips, donuts, cookies, hot dogs, and burgers – just your average school lunch.
This is how to design schools for autistic children.
Teaching during the Section 28 era has left a damaging legacy for those LGBT teachers who lived through it.
Excluding high earning dads from paid parental leave is not the answer.
When it comes to inclusive education, England has gone backwards, with more and more students placed in segregated provision or excluded from educational opportunities.
Parenting: attachment is not, and has never been, the only way.
Young children should be given a bigger role in deciding which charities their schools and families support.
Forest School helps children learn without realising it.
The education system is failing some of the country's most vulnerable children.
Research and News
New research shows that extra-curricular activities do more to help close the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils than nebulous lessons in 'character'.
Parents
Parent blaming has taken a new turn – no longer just criticised for failing to attend to their child’s every need, parents are now being condemned for 'over-parenting'.
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School
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Exams
Half of clever students from poorer backgrounds fail to secure top GCSE grades.
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Schools
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Rankings
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Learning
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Teaching
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Schools
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Exams
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Oxbridge
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