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Curriculum for Wales is meant to give teachers freedom but staff have been left needing support to understand what the expectations are, says Gareth Evans

Schools and trusts with private finance initiative contracts should start planning for when the deal expires – even if that’s several years in the future, says this legal expert

Training for Ofsted inspectors on small schools is welcome but these schools aren’t looking for special treatment, says the leader of a MAT that operates 22 small schools

Services such as social work, libraries and youth work will suffer if the Scottish government pushes ahead with plans to ring-fence £145.5m for school staff, say councils

The government turns down recommendations for 11-16 changes made by a House of Lords committee

Teachers need better guidance on dealing with violence in school, as well as confidence that incidents of concerning behaviour will be addressed properly, says Pam Duncan-Glancy

The ADES president also discusses an education system ‘in limbo’, approaches to teacher CPD, teacher numbers and why education directors are not resting on their laurels

The Ted Wragg Trust chief talks to 91¶¶Òõ about what inspired her to become a teacher, the importance of schools working together and the need for regional agility in policymaking

Simon Connell, CEO of Baker Dearing, tells 91¶¶Òõ why he believes the next step of the UTC movement should bring vocational learning into secondary classrooms

Ministers tell inspectorate and exams watchdog to assess the risks that the abuse of artificial intelligence poses to their sector

This week’s essential education news includes the launch of a five-year research project to identify best teaching practice and women in schools being denied flexible working

Secondary school leaders fear a ‘lost opportunity’ for Scottish education if reforms do not take shape soon, says Graham Hutton