The education secretary is due to meet the EIS to discuss whether all secondary schools will be allowed to delay introducing new exams.

Performance data for secondary schools was published last week, and there is an important difference between the latest figures and those that have been published in previous years. For the first time we are publishing separately the GCSE achievements of looked after children and children on free school meals at each and every school –

More than one hundred secondary schools are facing the threat of a change of management after league tables showed them to be ‘failing’

Katharine Birbalsingh is an heroic, principled woman who, against hideous odds, is trying desperately to open a free school - the Michaela Community School - in a part of South London woefully ill-served by state secondary schools. It will provide academic rigour, discipline, a liberal arts curriculum including Latin, uniforms, sporting facilities and extended school hours to children in one of th...

All secondary schools should have a military cadet force in the drive to raise standards, according to a senior Government education official.

contribution by Andy Ryan Michael Gove wants to be a revolutionary. When seeking to prove his revolution, he encourages people to count his beloved academies. Over one in six of UK secondary schools have taken the step and gained independence from their local authority. Gove crafts an image of school leaders enthusiastically seizing power and,

Secondary schools will learn later which of five performance bands they have been placed in by the Welsh government.

The regulator Ofsted has been marking schools as outstanding even when their teaching isn't. Only one of 18 factors refers to "quality of teaching and learning". Some 150 secondary schools were given the top rating by inspectors last year – even though they failed to score high marks for their teaching. And 260 primaries were similarly trumpeted after inspectors found their teaching was...

Details of Wales' best and worst performing secondary schools will be made available by the Welsh Government by the end of the year.

Senior academics say that many secondary schools are substantially better or worse for children of different abilities than crude averages suggest