Tuesday
Revealed: Primary and secondary attainment gap changes
Auditors reveal the progress Scotland has made in narrowing the attainment gap to date – and the mountain left to climb
Call to use academy ‘revolving doors’ to end exclusions
The new children’s commissioner, a former headteacher, says that exclusions keep school leaders ‘awake at night’
Many heads fear the push to close gap is unsustainable
Nine in 10 heads believe Covid is having an impact on efforts to close the poverty-related attainment gap, poll shows
DfE treats teachers as ‘problem not ally’ says Labour
Schools have faced ‘catalogue of government failings’ during Covid crisis, shadow education secretary will say today
Progress on closing the attainment gap ‘limited’
New report finds improvement ‘varies significantly’ across councils, with ‘evidence of worsening performance’ in some authorities
Monday
Williamson behaviour boost claim ‘flimsy’, say teachers
Education secretary says pupils’ behaviour has improved during Covid – but thousands of teachers disagree
76% of teachers think they should get vaccine priority
Poll follows earlier finding that the majority of the UK public thought teachers should be prioritised for vaccination
‘Varied’ success in attempts to bridge attainment gap
Report on five years of the Scottish Attainment Challenge finds that, on some measures, the gap has widened
Prolonged teacher pay freeze risks supply ‘challenge’
Pay restraint beyond 2021-22 could lead to ‘increasingly uncompetitive’ profession, NFER report warns
Friday
Geoff Barton to serve second term as ASCL leader
Former headteacher Geoff Barton can now continue to lead the Association of School and College Leaders until 2027
Abolish ‘repressive’ schools uniforms, ministers told
Pupils should be free to ‘find their own style’, which is ‘itself an important part of education’, peer argues
