GCSEs in modern foreign languages have historically been severely graded. We look to see if anything has changed with the introduction of new specifications.

An update to our regular series using attendance data to gauge the rate of exclusion and suspension in the whole of the 2025/26 academic year.

Summer 2026 Results Analysed: The National Picture

Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.

Your GCSE grades contain valuable information that can help you decide where you go next.

Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.

Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.

Summer 2026 Results Analysed: The National Picture

Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.

Young people across England have today received their A level, vocational and other applied Level 3 qualification results, and should be applauded for their hard work and commitment.  While A levels a...

Our round up of everything you need to know about the 2026 results.

Our usual round-up of everything we'll be looking out for on results day 2026.

Using the latest data from FFT Attendance Tracker, we look at attendance across the 2025/26 academic year, including increased rates of absence in the lead-up to the summer holidays

Exclusive: Analysis finds lower reading fluency than children from other ethnic backgrounds and richer peers

Exclusive: Analysis finds lower reading fluency than children from other ethnic backgrounds and richer peers A third of disadvantaged white pupils in England leave their primary school unable to read well enough to access the secondary curriculum, leading to disengagement and school absence, according to new research. The findings were published days after an independent inquiry into white working-class educational outcomes concluded the current education system was “not set up to serve white working-class children and families”. Continue reading...

The Inquiry into White working class educational outcomes recommended making reading fluency at primary school a national priority for White working class children. We dig into the data from the Reading Assessment Programme to analyse fluency among this group.

Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomized experiments. Such experiments are usually designed in the hope of supporting comparisons of cost effectivene...

We look at look much school pupils missed during last week's heatwave, and how much of it was due to school closures.

Recent Ofsted analysis showed that achievement grades in inspection were related to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. We dig into this a bit more.

Quantifying the level of challenge in the Government's twin ambitions of raising Key Stage 4 attainment overall and halving the disadvantage gap

The findings from new research suggest that there are strong teacher effects on attainment in maths and reading at primary, but not necessarily on attendance.

The session will focus on practical insights, drawing on existing work that evaluates the impact of post-16 learning pathways.

We look at the numbers of students studying modern foreign languages at A-Level by gender, ethnicity and disadvantage.

Eventbrite - Distance as an Instrumental Variable in LEO to analyse post-16 transitions - Wednesday, 24 June 2026 at University of Westminster - Marylebone Campus, London, England. Find event and ticket information.

This blog by Professor Claire Crawford outlines recent updates to the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset, including the introduction of new derive...

A summary of some new research examining how the timing of excluding disruptive pupils affects the outcomes of peers at the same school.

Recent research allows us to ask new questions about how children differ in their educational development and what this does – and does not - mean for schools.

NEW: The state of play for MATs in 2026 According to the schools white paper, all schools will eventually be part of a trust. We look at the current situation. vist.ly/423gs