News archive for 22nd August 2019

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How teachers got boys interested in English literature - Independent GCSEs: Evidence backing hike in maths grades rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills Kazan 2019 starts with opening ceremony - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs 2019: Progress 8 driving early entries in English - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results day 2019: Tes podcast - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2019: Art booms with entries up 9.5% - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: 'Look how far you have come' - Times Educational Supplement | TES How one school achieved its best-ever GCSEs - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: Why it's time to review the resits policy - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Toil and trouble over Macbeth exam question - Times Educational Supplement | TES WorldSkills 2019: Team UK flies the flag at dazzling opening ceremony - FE Week Closing the GCSE attainment gap can’t be up to schools alone | Letters - Guardian If GCSE exams get harder, how can results go up? - BBC ‘Attenborough effect’ is ‘fuelling’ interest in GCSE science - Schools Week GCSE results 2019: Double science - Schools Week GCSE results 2019: are Michael Gove’s reforms working? - Times Controversial Michaela free school delights in GCSE success - Guardian New programme to help teens in the north east become doctors and lawyers - Sutton Trust 72% of primary teachers say pressures to teach full curriculum are fuelling a decline in engagement with STEM subjects - PoliticsHome College students celebrate GCSE success 2019 - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE Results Day 2019 - AoC comment - AoC | Association of Colleges GCSE results 2019: How have grades changed in each subject – and what might explain it? - FFT Education Datalab GCSE results 2019: How entry numbers in EBacc and non-EBacc subjects have changed over time - FFT Education Datalab Explain it to me: The beneficial effects of explaining for memory - Learning Scientists Ebacc squeezes out the subjects that most develop the skills employers demand - Edge Foundation Three per cent rise in modern foreign language GCSEs is ‘slight recovery after huge drop’ - British Council Analysis: GCSE results day 2019 - EPI GCSE results 2019: The main trends in grades and entries - FFT Education Datalab A little more honesty would go a long way in academia - Times Higher Education | THE Strike warning as increase in USS pension contributions backed - Times Higher Education | THE GSA girls among the few to achieve 10 and 11 grade 9s in this year’s GCSEs - GSA ASCL comment on GCSE results - ASCL NASUWT comments on Northern Ireland GCSE results - NASUWT Autumn pension strikes more likely as universities impose higher costs - UCU Guide to GCSE results for England 2019 - NAHT NASUWT comments on GCSE results - NASUWT ASCL Northern Ireland comment on GCSE results - ASCL ASCL Cymru comment on GCSE results in Wales - ASCL CBI responds to GCSE results - CBI GCSE entries: How are non-EBacc subjects faring since the introduction of Progress 8? - NFER Letter from the Social Mobility Commission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Social Mobility Commission GCSE entries to arts and core academic subjects rise - DfE Guide to GCSE results for England, 2019 - Ofqual Data collection to inform funding for 2020-21: Responses to feedback and confirmation of approach - Office for Students GCSE results 2019 - Schools NorthEast GCSE results - National Education Union Four things Nesta has learnt about adult skills and lifelong learning - Nesta What motivates adults to learn? - Nesta NEU Cymru - GCSE results 2019 - National Education Union NASUWT comments on GCSE and Welsh Baccalaureate results - NASUWT Exams shake-up sees 837 teenagers score clean sweep of highest GCSE grade - Metro WorldSkills Kazan 2019 opening ceremony: How to watch - Times Educational Supplement | TES Fears over 'tough' new GCSEs drove grades up - Mail GCSE results highlight persistent regional differences - Financial Times GCSE results 2019: How every school in Cardiff and the Vale did - Wales Online GCSEs: Evidence backing hike in maths grades rejected - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE resits: 60k students boost English and maths grade - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: 'A tectonic shift in geography entries' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSEs: Creative subjects 'may vanish in state schools' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Parent appeals over secondary places up by a third - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results in Carmarthenshire: How every school and college performed - Wales Online GCSE results 2019: Four key points - Times Educational Supplement | TES We're failing the 16-year-olds who feel like failures - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2019: Perfect 9s up 14% as girls dominate - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: 'GCSEs feel like a Kafkaesque nightmare' - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: 'Is this the best we can do for pupils?' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Highs and lows of 2019 GCSE results – in pictures - Guardian ‘I thought I was going to fail!’ – pupils relieved by good GCSE results - Guardian Trailblazing legal, finance and accounting apprenticeships for young people getting their GCSE results - IfATE What time is the WorldSkills 2019 opening ceremony and can I watch it live? - FE Week Improved GCSE results disguise a fail for Theresa May - New Statesman GCSE results 2019: Girls still lead the way over boys - Schools Week GCSE results 2019: Subject tables - Schools Week Why are children forced to choose between the arts? The Ebacc must go | Bob and Roberta Smith - Guardian GCSE results day 2019: What do the numerical grades mean and what are the old equivalents? - Independent GCSE results: ‘Bleak’ and ‘worrying’ drop in non-EBacc subjects - Schools Week GCSEs not gone to plan? Our experts offer advice - BBC South Ayrshire sees drop in pupils with ASN in mainstream education - Scotsman 837 teenagers score clean sweep of highest GCSE grade after exams shake-up - Mail Wales GCSE results 2019: The incredible turnaround of one of Wales' most troubled schools - Wales Online GCSE results day 2019: Only 800 students in England get clean sweep of highest grades under reforms - Independent Should we abolish private schools? (video) - Guardian Ofqual refuses to change grade boundaries despite NRT showing ‘unexpected’ slump in English - Schools Week Busy Bees invests £3m in new learning programme - Nursery World GCSEs 2019: Grades at 4 year high but stability reigns - Times Educational Supplement | TES Top GCSE grades rise for second year in a row after exam shake-up - Mail GCSE results 2019: Girls surge helps lift computing - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2019: Languages enjoy surprise revival - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results 2019: Boys' top grades boost disappears - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results day: the nature documentary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Pedagogy focus: Peer assessment - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results: English and maths resits pass rates drop - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE results day 2019: All you need to know - Times Educational Supplement | TES 'It's good to have rules, children know where they stand' - BBC Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading - IOE London Blog Suspended dean of Oxford college to be reinstated - Guardian GCSE 2019: Centre variability – how normal are your GCSE scores? - Schools Week GCSE results 2019: Six interesting things we have learned - Schools Week GCSE results 2019: Top grades being awarded inch up - Schools Week GCSE results day 2019: increase in top grades – live news - Guardian GCSE results: girls fare better than boys under more rigorous courses - Guardian Pass rate falls for GCSE English and maths resits - FE Week GCSE results 2019: Extreme concern at drop in English language results in Wales - Wales Online GCSE results: Pass rates and top grades edge upwards - BBC Share your reaction and experiences to GCSE results day 2019 - Guardian WJEC GCSE grade boundaries 2019 explained - Wales Online GCSE results day: Top grades and pass rates rise despite headteacher backlash at tougher exams - Independent GCSE results day 2019 – live: Only 800 students in England get clean sweep of highest grades under reforms - Independent GCSE results 2019 live updates: Grades, analysis and reaction from schools around Wales - Wales Online As an Iranian academic, I'm fed up of being asked to focus on poverty and oppression | Sadaf Javdani - Guardian What happened when I got in touch with three of my old teachers | Adrian Chiles - Guardian GCSEs 2019: Where are we at with new grades 9-1? - BBC Pupils receive GCSE results as concerns raised over new format - Guardian Upskilling and reskilling of staff no longer an optional extra – it is vital - Scotsman TUC calls for apprenticeship transport discount - Times Educational Supplement | TES GCSE 2019 grade boundaries – AQA, Edexcel, CCEA and OCR criteria and numbered grading system - The Sun GCSE grade boundaries 2019 explained: What is a pass at GCSE? - Metro Ivory towers: the rise of luxury student lodgings - Financial Times Learning in the spaces in between - Wonkhe Education Secretary says post-16 options better than ever, as GCSE results released - DfE Teachers failing to protect young eastern Europeans from racism post Brexit vote, researchers say - Independent Housing Minister Esther McVey urges GCSE students to take up careers as bricklayers - The Sun GCSE grades explained – what is the 1-9 marking system and how does it work? - The Sun Poor pupils nearly twice as likely not to pass maths GCSE as richer peers, analysis reveals - Independent Working long hours should not be demonised - Times Higher Education | THE Abuse case professor ‘could have been stopped sooner’ - Times Higher Education | THE How can academics keep up with the literature? - Times Higher Education | THE GCSE results: Nail-biting wait for grades - BBC Teenagers braced for GCSE misery as experts predict fewer than 1,000 pupils will achieve top grades - Mail Teachers are to get tough new training so they can deal with badly-behaved pupils - Mail Hundreds of thousands of students to get results of tough new GCSEs - Mail GCSEs: Thousands of school pupils wait for results - BBC Small employers warn that ‘exhausted funds’ threaten the future of the apprenticeship system - FE Week State schools raise the bar for sixth form - Times Overprotective advice can make exam stress worse - Times Educational Supplement | TES Religious studies GCSE in sharp decline - Times Xenophobic bullying souring lives of eastern European pupils in UK - Guardian