Edexcel to replace further maths paper pupils were due to sit later this week Regulators are to review the integrity of the school examination system in England after a “completely unacceptable” security breach led the Edexcel board to withdraw and replace an A-level further maths paper over fears it had Read more…
Edexcel to replace further maths paper pupils were due to sit later this week The exam board Edexcel is to scrap and replace an A-level maths exam paper that pupils were due to sit on Thursday over fears the paper could have been leaked. Pearson, the parent company of Edexcel, Read more…
Tim Ramsey wants all LGBT children to feel free to be themselves – but says Birmingham shows we have a long way to go The first mention Tim Ramsey ever heard at school of homosexuality was negative, he remembers. “I was in a year 5 lesson and we were looking Read more…
Ed Fidoe, co-founder of School 21, is launching the London Interdisciplinary School, mixing arts, science and business skills Ed Fidoe, co-founder of School 21, an “outstanding” free school in east London, has spotted a problem. To solve it, he’s opening a university. It all began in 2012 when he, together Read more…
Report calls for national bereavement policy as 41,000 children a year lose a parent There is no government-led national bereavement policy for schools despite the equivalent of every classroom in the UK containing at least one child who has lost a parent or sibling, according to a report into the Read more…
Even if A-level or GCSE students have lost a parent, their future depends on being poised to perform on a random day I met a woman on a train last week who told me about her two sons currently sitting their GCSEs and A-levels. Stressed teens are difficult to live Read more…
Readers react strongly to the news that Theresa May is to pledge new materials and guidance for teachers as part of a prevention initiative The news that Theresa May is focusing on mental health training for teachers (Report, 17 June) left me speechless. As I read on in the paper Read more…
Headmaster Richard Russell thinks private schools can be engines of social mobility rather than privilege, while Helen Brown highlights the benefits for children with special educational needs Robert Verkaik’s implicit assumption that all private schools are like Eton should not go unchallenged (When will Corbyn take on the might of Read more…
Education secretary says arguments and disengaged parents cost nine GCSE grades Children’s home environments have a bigger effect on social mobility than being born into low-income backgrounds or attending underperforming schools, the education secretary has said. Damian Hinds described the issue as “the last taboo in public policy”, and added Read more…
Headteachers are being forced to beg for donations. It makes a mockery of ministers’ talk of fair funding The contraction of school budgets over the past three years is one of many grave errors of judgment by this government, and has compounded the mistakes of the previous one. That departing Read more…