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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...
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Teachers’ strikes: Keegan says pay deal is final offer
An increased pay deal for teachers is the government's final offer, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has said.
Teacher mentoring and leadership programmes renewed by DfE
DfE confirms £14m investment in two programmes to boost leadership and governance and new teacher mentoring
Ceredigion schools join Sustran’s Big Walk and Wheel competition
FIVE Ceredigion schools have signed up to the UK’s biggest inter-school walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling competition.
Report finds Harper Adams among UK’s most popular universities for students aged 50 and over
“It’s reassuring to see this kind of research providing evidence that, as a specialist institution, we are still...
Get help paying for childcare this Easter
Families in Gloucestershire are being reminded not to miss out on government help paying for childcare this Easter.
Ofsted says school inspections won’t stop after death of Reading headteacher Ruth Perry
Ofsted has rejected calls to stop school inspections following the death of headteacher Ruth Perry.
What’s Going on With the Industrial Dispute at UK Universities?
A prolonged industrial dispute between UK university staff and employers looks set to continue, despite initial talks of...
Tim Oates: in defence of knowledge
As one of the architects of the 2014 national curriculum, Tim Oates helped drive the knowledge-rich education movement....
Schools’ Stem diversity problem needs systemic solution, say MPs
Report finds students from black Caribbean backgrounds in England ‘acutely’ underrepresented in Stem
Gillian Keegan urged to not let culture wars weaken sex education
Organisations write to education secretary before review, saying England’s schools have vital role in tackling misogyny and abuse
Blunt one-word Ofsted ratings could be scrapped in wake of head teacher’s death
Chief inspector opens door to removing grades after suicide of Ruth Perry, whose school was being lowered from...
Swindon teachers share Ofsted pressures as head’s death causes outcry
A Swindon teacher has said she is leaving the profession because of the toll it is taking on her health.