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'Volume and intensity' of GCSE exams is 'too high', exam board concludes

Examinations & Qualifications

'Appalling' – £7,400 free school meals cap has not increased in six years

Free School Meals

Schools urged to focus attendance efforts on the 2.4 million students who miss 5% to 15% of school

Attendance

Teaching on the cheap? Two in five TAs cover at least five hours of lessons a week

Support staff

Teachers lose 7 minutes out of every 30 dealing with misbehaviour in lessons

Behaviour

Dramatic decline in practical science in the classroom

Computing and STEM

Record number of suspensions as schools report rising problems with challenging behaviour

Behaviour

Getting interventions right: Popular EEF implementation guidance is revamped and updated

Closing the gap

Students lose 16 days of curriculum learning due to reading interventions

Literacy and numeracy

One in five schools now operating food banks as cost of living bites

Poverty

Primary school exclusions link to secondary absence and GCSE attainment

Behaviour

Relationships and sex education: Young people turning to social media for information

PSHE