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Schools are enthusiastic about the way National Progression Awards engage students – especially those not suited to exams. But Emma Seith finds there are still barriers to their implementation

There’s no point designing new qualifications if there’s no one there to teach them and no resources to teach them with, argues Sam Freedman

This week’s essential education news includes a sharp rise in Ofsted reports changed after school complaints, criticisms of Rishi Sunak’s plans for a British Baccalaureate, and 27 new schools being added to the list of those containing RAAC

The inspectorate’s new report into geography teaching highlights areas of development for schools at every stage, says Steve Brace

Ofsted study finds some secondary schools temporarily removed music from their curriculum because of a shortage of specialist teachers

Ofsted inspectors found that only a small number of schools have a clearly defined and broad physical education curriculum

Inspectorate reveals findings on how geography is taught in England’s primary and secondary schools

It’s difficult to find real-life contexts for some topics in maths – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth learning, explains Nathan Burns

COBIS letter to Gillian Keegan warns that ‘significant’ elements of British education that international schools deliver are ‘not fit for purpose’

The Glasgow primary headteacher on creating a truly fair schools system, the value in being “consistently inconsistent” and how her school responded to a “tsunami of racism”

The DfE’s language hubs are aimed at helping to improve take-up of Spanish, French and German

However, half of schools on the Nuffield Early Language Intervention were not able to finish the programme because of staff time and capacity issues, finds report