Hazel Shearing

Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will receive GCSE, BTec Tech Awards and other level 2 qualifications on Thursday.

London was the highest-performing region, while the West Midlands was the lowest.

Colleges want a review of GCSE English resit grades, but Pearson says it is confident in the marks.

A head teachers' union is warning that schools with Raac will feel the financial impact for years.

Hazel Shearing British universities say they are at "a fork in the road" and will "slide into decline" without action to sort out their finances.

They say £12,500 tuition fees in England would meet costs but asking for that would seem "clueless".

Hazel Shearing Hundreds of old and leaky school buildings in England still don't have builders assigned to them - even though they're on a flagship government rebuilding programme, the BBC has found.

The chancellor says the government will ensure that 50 schools in England are rebuilt every year.

But school leaders do not agree on how quickly the government should be pacing itself.

Hazel Shearing Branwen Jeffreys The “alarming” level of children missing school has become a “stubborn and damaging issue”, according to the chief inspector of Ofsted, England's schools regulator.