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Eleanor Busby
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Progress 8 data shows 30% rise in schools below floor standard
More schools have fallen below the floor standard, an analysis of provisional GCSE data has found
12 October 2017
Progress 8: EBacc entries have dropped, and other key findings from today’s GCSE statistics
What can we conclude from the government’s provisional key stage 4 data? Tes analyses the latest DfE figures
12 October 2017
Exclusive: DfE ‘must explain why its selective education team still exists’
Grammar schools met with the specialist DfE team last month, despite ministers abandoning plans to open new grammars
11 October 2017
Research: Progress 8 scores suggest inspection findings are not ‘arbitrary’
Schools rated as ‘outstanding’ have average Progress 8 score of 0.47, analysis shows
11 October 2017
Pupils losing out as schools prepare for GCSE early, says Ofsted
Some children never study history, geography or a language after the age of 12 or 13, the schools inspectorate warns
11 October 2017
Grammar heads say poor pupils are losing out as DfE delays transport pledge
Budget pledge to extend free transport could improve social mobility, heads say, but a change in the law is needed
10 October 2017