Secondary

BBC News - A-level students have been awarded the highest proportion of As and A*s since 2012, amid changes toughening the exams in England. DfE - Next generation of young people gaining the skills Britain needs. The Guardian - A-levels: proportion of students in England...

BBC News - There has been a further improvement in Welsh students' performance at the top grades at A level....

BBC News - More boys than girls have achieved the top A-Level grade in Northern Ireland for the first time....

The Sunday Times - Exam results are to be downgraded as a measure of school quality as the chief inspector moves to stamp out a culture of cramming children for tests....

The Guardian - The chief qualifications regulator in England, Sally Collier, said that year’s A-level and GCSE students would not be suffer from being the first to take the new, tougher, exams....

BBC News - The pass rate for this year's Higher exams was "broadly stable", Education Secretary John Swinney has said....

BBC News - A GCSE in British Sign Language (BSL) could be introduced in the UK before the next general election following a campaign by a deaf schoolboy....

TES - Additional resits for applied generals, such as BTECs and Cambridge Technicals, will be available beyond this summer....

The Guardian - Some children turning up to see their new school have had a nasty surprise: reading and writing tests....

Education Endowment Foundation - Embedding Formative Assessment is a professional development programme which aims to improve pupil outcomes by embedding the use of formative assessment strategies across a school....

BBC News - How selection impacts on education is explored in Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In? on BBC Two at 2100 BST on Tuesday 5 June. Episode one is now available on the BBC iPlayer....

DfE - Implementation of T Level programmes: consultation response. DfE - New T Levels mark a revolution in technical education.  Education Secretary names the first 52 colleges and other providers set to teach T Levels....

TES - It would be 'sad' if key stage 3 was only about GCSE preparation, says Pearson vice-president.  Exam board leaders have raised concerns about schools that teach GCSEs over three years, instead of the two-year period they were designed for....

Ofqual - The purpose of this report is to review how moderation is currently being delivered in a number of jurisdictions across the world at upper secondary, and in particular to consider what might be learnt in terms of the approach...

DfE - Approved key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2020 school and college performance tables....

TES - One of the biggest academy chains in the country has discussed entering as few as 15 per cent of pupils for the EBacc as part of plans to provide a more "appropriate" curriculum....

DfE - Ready reckoner to calculate level 3 value-added scores for providers, and transition matrices of level 3 results by key stage 4 prior attainment....

DfE - Ready reckoners to calculate progress scores for pupils and schools, and transition matrices of GCSE subject grades by prior attainment....

DfE - Revised information on A level and other results for 16- to 18-year-olds, including data by student characteristics....

DfE - Revised statistics on the achievements of young people at the end of key stage 4 in England, including attainment by pupil characteristics....

DfE - How to use school performance tables to see how a school is performing at key stage 4 compared to a school with a similar intake of pupils....

DfE - How to use school and college performance data to interpret pupil attainment and progress, and compare schools and colleges in England....

DfE - A list of qualifications included in the English and maths progress measures for 16 to 18 performance tables....

DfE - Approved 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes for reporting in the school and college performance tables....

DfE - New results published today show standards are rising across England's secondary schools....