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The government repeats the same old lines about ‘levelling up’ – while cutting funding for the poorest children, says Geoff Barton

Data on WJEC site ‘not displaying correctly’ on deadline day for entering GCSE and A-level grades. Yesterday, OCR’s site crashed

Several new faces on what is now known as the Education, Children and Young People Committee

Scientists and academics call for daily Covid contact testing trials to be halted in schools amid concerns over Delta variant

When trials fail to deliver on a popular educational theory’s promise, it doesn’t always mean the approach should be dismissed out of hand, writes Alex Quigley

Pit your wits against Tes’ weekly general knowledge quiz

It may feel like a thankless task now, but you really are making a difference to your pupils in these strangest of times – just ask the Scotland squad

The man who led the independent review of the 2020 results fiasco talks to Tes about his own school days, his experiences as a teacher and his aversion to what he calls “evaluationitis”

The NAHT president recalls a disastrous Latin O level, the summer he spent as a counsellor at a boys’ summer camp in Texas and explains why a job selling ladies’ footwear was not a good fit for him

Teachers could learn a lot about successful lesson planning from the writers of television drama series, says Yvonne Williams

An understanding of our species’ development is not just a topic of academic interest – it provides educators with the key to unlock practical, effective classroom strategies that put everybody’s time to best use, write Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky and Terrence J Sejnowski

Dyslexia is a contentious area that is often viewed in terms of the limitations it brings, but arguments are now being made that ‘dyslexic thinking’ is a positive trait that can lead to learning and career benefits, finds Zofia Niemtus