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Some students who won places in 2021 are now failing exams or not submitting work, vice-chancellor warns

A speech later today outlining his priorities for the year ahead. among the proposals hes expected to talk about, hell set out plans to ensure all pupils in england study some form of maths until theyre 18. but no new qualifications are immediately planned and there are no plans to make a—levels compulsory. labour has criticised the plans as an "empty pledge". lets talk to our political correspondent damian grammaticas, whos at westminster. we are going to talk about maths in a minute, but fir...

The Prime Minister wants to put numeracy at the heart of education in Britain... a calculation that may be more difficult than he realises

20 cases reported to Ofqual with some 'upheld’ at North London Collegiate School, The Guardian claims

And this expectation... i mean, even from a school point of view, its the same question one of our teachers asked us. she took us to one side towards the end of the kind of a—level, the a—levels were coming to the end. and she sat us down and she said, "twins, do you really want to get "an arranged marriage when you leave school?" and we had had no discussions with her whatsoever. it wasnt even on our agenda. but they had this mind—set that, you know, all asian parents, they dont want thei...

Student penalties up more than two-fifths in 2022 compared to 2019, with mobile phones making up the majority of exam offences

This year, 1,845 such penalties were issued for these offences – up from 1,385 in 2019, the last time exams were sat

The Government has committed £800 million over the next three academic years to help sixth formers recover after the pandemic

Many schools will be hosting individual awards ceremonies to celebrate their learners’ achievements

For the process that led to those votes that did finally say capital punishment is abolished. well come to another of your values later, which is christianity, its very important to you, to yourfamily. did that mean that the morality of capital punishment, notjust the practicalities of how you legislate, was something that you did discuss at home? yes, i think we did, because i mean, that early period, i was very young. but i remember very distinctly in 1979, so the conservative manifesto, there...