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Mick Waters, widely seen as one of the most charismatic figures in English education, is leaving the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

Officials who oversaw this summer’s marking have earned high- performance payouts

Thousands of secondary teachers have been left wondering what to do with their Year 9 classes after the scrapping of key stage 3 Sats.

Thousands of scripts are still missing and markers have yet to be paid, but the American company winds up its UK operation

It is a measure beloved of statisticians but likely to bring the general public out in a cold sweat.Now standard deviation, a formula for calculating how widely spread a set of numbers are, is making a comeback at GCSE.

Only one in eight girls who gain an A* in physics or double science GCSE goes on to take physics at A-level, figures uncovered by academics have revealed.