Thursday
Scottish election 2021: Labour manifesto for education
Labour aims to protect new teachers and boost academic recovery from the pandemic with tutoring plan
Does flexible working mean the same hours for less pay?
The DfE says flexible working will help retention – but not if part-time means working extra hours, says Yvonne Williams
Why state teachers’ pensions could be under threat, too
The Teachers’ Pension Scheme is under attack – and it isn’t just a private-school problem, says David James
Revealed: Where £10m DfE school behaviour cash is going
Seven behaviour experts will cost DfE £1 million over the course of controversial three-year scheme
‘Train teachers to constructively challenge authority’
Scottish education is ‘coasting’ and it is time for ‘greatly increased’ school autonomy, says think tank
Wednesday
News briefing: What the catch-up tsar wants for schools
From ‘billions’ in funding to handpicked tutors – all we learned from the recovery commissioner’s talk at today’s Schools North East event
‘Imperative’ to compensate for Erasmus loss
Erasmus played ‘massively important role’ in creating confident languages teachers, warn linguists
Scottish election 2021: Alba’s manifesto for education
Alba is promising a ‘bonfire of paperwork so teachers can teach’ and a broadening of the curriculum
I’m here to ‘stop bad things happening’, says Collins
Catch-up tsar says some people will accuse him of making ‘a disaster’ of things but that his ‘bigger challenge’ is securing resources
Schools could get more control over catch-up tutoring
Government catch-up tsar wants to give schools freedom to pick their own ‘verified and qualified’ tutors, unlike National Tutoring Programme system
Catch-up tsar: Asking teachers to do more has a price
Catch-up funding must be ‘in the billions’, says recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins as he talks of ‘extending’ the ‘educational experience’
