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Eleven Plus Exams Tuition shortlisted for National Tutoring Awards 2026
We are thrilled to announce that Eleven Plus Exams will be supporting the National Tutoring Awards 2026 as Platinum Sponsors, and that we have also been...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists at the Education Resources Awards 2026
We’re proud to share more exciting news from a remarkable season of recognition. For the second year in a row, Eleven Plus Exams is honoured to...
Eleven Plus Exams signs the Publishers Association’s new Publishing Inclusion Pledge
Eleven Plus Exams has joined over 50 publishing industry colleagues as a founding signatory of the Publishing Inclusion Pledge 2026-28, launched last week by the Publishers...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO named The Enterprise World’s Most Influential Business Leader to Follow 2026
We are delighted to announce that Eleven Plus Exams CEO, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named one of The Enterprise World’s Most Influential Business Leaders to Follow...
Eleven Plus Exams Named Finalist at the GESS Awards 2025
We are delighted to share that Eleven Plus Exams was named a finalist in the GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions) Education Awards 2025. The awards...
Eleven Plus Exams at the National Tutors’ Conference 2025
Eleven Plus Exams showcased our products, services and expertise at the 2025 National Tutors’ Conference, hosted by the Tutors' Association, at The Royal Lancaster Hotel in...
Finalists for Online School of the Year in the National Tutoring Awards 2025
We’re proud to share that Eleven Plus Exams Tuition was named a Finalist for Online School of the Year at the National Tutoring Awards 2025, held...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO finalist in the 2025 Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards
Eleven Plus Exams’ CEO and founder, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named a finalist in the 2025 Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards, shortlisted in the Technology...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO named EdTech Innovation CEO of the Year
Eleven Plus Exams’ CEO, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named one of the recipients of the CEO of the Year Awards UK 2025, presented by the Excellence...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists in the Education Resources Awards 2025
The Education Resources Awards 2025 shortlist has been announced! Eleven Plus Exams are thrilled to be selected as finalists in the following categories: Supplier of the...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists in EducationInvestor Awards 2025
Eleven Plus Exams are delighted to announce that we have been selected as finalists in the EducationInvestor Awards 2025, organised by Nexus Media Group, in the...
Celebrating 20 Years of Eleven Plus Exams
Our site, elevenplusexams.co.uk, was founded in August 2004 along with our 11 Plus Exams Forum, the nation’s most trusted, free, impartial source of 11+ advice. We’re...
People’s Choice for Tuition Partner of the Year 2024
It was an honour to receive the People’s Choice Award for Tuition Partner 2024 at the National Tutoring Awards last Friday. This year's awards ceremony was...
News Archive
Korean universities to consider bullying records in admissions
But academics express scepticism, saying policy does not tackle ‘root’ of problem behaviour
The Fine Art of School Engagement
How expanding arts education affects learning, behavior, and social-emotional growth
Going to a good school really matters, right up to old age, study suggests
People in their seventies who went to schools with more graduate-level teachers have younger and smarter brains
Metacognition and teacher modelling
Often oversimplified, it can be more helpful to consider metacognition as a process of planning, monitoring and evaluating...
Rushed T-level plans may hold teens back – report
Students could miss out on suitable vocational courses after their GCSEs if a shake-up of post-16 education goes...
Ruth Perry: Northwood Primary head teacher resigns after Ofsted inspection
An Isle of Wight head teacher has said an Ofsted inspection was "the straw that broke the camel's...
Ex-schools minister to chair NEU-funded inquiry into Ofsted
Lord Knight to lead 'Beyond Ofsted' inquiry set up to develop proposals for an 'alternative approach' to inspection
DfE on course to recruit less than half of required secondary teachers
Analysis of new government recruitment targets shows teacher supply is 'spiralling out of control'
Parent’s anger as Hartley schoolboy misses out on grammar school place despite passing Kent Test
A dad says he's incredibly frustrated after his son passed the Kent Test but wasn't offered a place at a...
Pressure mounts for A-level students following strike disruption
Final-year school pupils are feeling the pressure as they prepare to sit their first exams
Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth needs to stop speaking to teachers like a chatbot and remember her days in the classroom – Cameron Wyllie
I was not alone in the cautious optimism with which I greeted the news that Jenny Gilruth had...
Thinking Beyond Ofsted to help national teacher shortage
A NEW independent inquiry has been set up to evaluate the current inspection system for schools within the...