Secondary

One international school in Singapore embarked on a journey to scrap International GCSEs in 2021. This summer the first cohort to undertake the school’s replacement curriculum graduated. Here, Emma Seith finds out how they got on

King’s Group Academies’ Chris Willis shares details of the network it has created to provide a more coordinated approach to young people engaging with potential future career opportunities

In the past fortnight thousands have been arrested and schools have been disrupted in France amid a wave of protests by teenagers. What’s driving the unrest? And could something similar happen in England?

More than 46,000 students took A-level economics this year but the subject has had fewer than 100 new specialist teachers since 2019. The government needs to make this staff shortage a priority, argues academic Sonia Strnad

In a world where young people see content creators seemingly striking it rich from just a couple of videos, teachers must make the longer-term pay-off of education attractive, says Shen Megalaa

We’ve had plenty of past attempts to build an education system that works for every pupil – and all have failed because they’ve been based on a two-tier model, warns Roy Blatchford

New large-scale analysis highlights the benefits of schools joining academy trusts – particularly those in disadvantaged areas, writes the deputy CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts

The real differentiator between top-performing state schools and the rest is something policymakers won’t speak about – the ability to curate an engaged parent cohort, says this headteacher

The latest Pisa international study has sparked many far-reaching claims that stretch what the data tells us – and England’s scores in reading and maths aren’t worth writing home about anyway, says Christian Bokhove

A schools group leader outlines how its settings give students the chance to engage with employers in a raft of industries to help shape their future career choices

From transport links to a lack of teaching staff, the challenge of creating new technical routes for students will be immense, says this governance chief in Dorset

Another year of declining proportions of resit students achieving a grade 4 in maths and English has resulted in much discussion about whether young people are being set up to fail – and whether a grade 4 really is necessary for future work