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29% of children scored full marks in their Multiplication Table Check in 2023, up from 27% in 2022.

• Updated: 23 November 2023

Primary school pupils show improvement in their reading ability as attainment in this year’s reading assessment increases since last year.

• Updated: 12 October 2023

Free schools achieve highest results for six and seven-year-old pupils for the fifth year in a row

• Updated: 26 September 2019

As the world’s education leaders gather in London, a Shanghai - England teacher exchange shows the power of international collaboration.

• Updated: 25 January 2019

Official figures show 163,000 more six-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers than in 2012 thanks to our focus on phonics

• Updated: 27 September 2018

Schools minister addresses delegates at the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) conference.

• Updated: 26 July 2016

Schools Minister Nick Gibb speaks at Elmhurst Primary School about the importance of learning multiplication tables and number facts.

• Updated: 12 February 2016

The Education Minister calls for a renaissance in maths to help meet the demand of UK employers, and announces the removal of calculators from key stage 2 tests.

• Updated: 9 November 2012

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Mathematics: made to measure emphasises the importance for every pupil to have the best possible mathematics education.

• Updated: 22 May 2012

Schools Minister Nick Gibb has said the use of calculators in primary schools would be looked at as part of the national curriculum review.

• Updated: 2 December 2011

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government