Attainment

The academic attainment of primary schoolchildren in England remains significantly lower than before Covid, according to the latest Sats results, which are virtually unchanged from last year.The proportion of 10- and 11-year-old pupils…

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I agree with Gaby Hinsliff that boys failing to engage with further education is something that needs to be explored urgently (If I mention the ‘modern male struggle’, do you roll your eyes? It’s time to stop looking away, 20 September). If…

The head of the headteachers’ union has warned that GCSE results will be uneven across the country because of the varying impact of the pandemic – describing the government’s Covid recovery programme as “lacklustre and chaotic”.The number…

This year’s GCSE results for England and Wales are expected to confirm a widening north-south education gap, prompting a prediction that the government will miss one of its key levelling-up targets if it continues to hold back pupils in the…

All children born before full term are more likely to have poorer attainment during primary school compared with children born full term (39-41 weeks), but only children born very preterm -- before 32 weeks -- remain at risk of poor…

The attainment gap between poorer pupils and their better-off class mates is just as large now as it was 20 years ago, according to a damning new report which says the coronavirus pandemic is likely to have increased the inequalities in…

The Covid pandemic and disruption has undone many of the improvements in primary school test results within the last five years, according to this year’s Sats assessments taken by pupils in England.Just 59% of 10- and 11-year-olds reached…