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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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Keegan delays launch of new 2023 T Levels
Quality concerns have been found in 4 of the courses due to be rolled out from September
National Tutoring Programme levelling tuition playing field
A new survey by the Sutton Trust, which looks at trends in private tutoring, as well as in...
DNA prediction is here – so what are schools going to do about it?
With the publication of a new genetic risk score for educational attainment, we are closer than ever to...
Grammar schools admitting lowest number of deprived pupils in Kent
NEW data shows that three Tunbridge Wells schools rank among the lowest in Kent when it comes to...
Biggest primary trust plans to take control of its schools’ funding
England’s largest primary-only multi-academy trust REAch2 plans to centralise control over all of its 60 schools’ regular funding...
A moment that changed me: I was a personal trainer – then my teenage cousin pushed me to go to university
The tutor on my exercise science course pointed me towards literature, and I began to read voraciously. It...
Big increase in reluctant readers, say secondary teachers
Social media and not recognising the importance of reading to learn is contributing to a fall in time...
South Korean spending on private education surpasses 26 trillion won in 2022
The average monthly expenditure on private education surged by 11.8 percent in 2022, reaching 410,000 won per student,...
University of Wolverhampton workers made MBEs by King Charles
Two pioneering staff members at the University of Wolverhampton have been made MBEs by King Charles at Windsor...
Biggest primary trust plans to take control of its schools’ funding
REAch2 said GAG pooling would allow 'strategic' decisions and 'solidarity', but unions fear dozens of job cuts and...
89% of city schools now rated Good or Outstanding
Even more schools in Wolverhampton are now rated either Good or Outstanding by Ofsted, latest figures show.