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Multi-academy trusts can achieve many benefits by using the same platforms and systems across multiple schools, but deciding how best to do that comes with complicated questions, finds Dan Worth

An online-only alternative provision provider has become one of the first schools to receive online education accreditation from Ofsted. Dan Worth examines how it works and whether online AP could be used more widely across the sector

Too many teachers new to the profession – most of them women – face ‘real difficulty’ finding work in Scotland’s schools, says country’s biggest teaching union

More students are having to access lessons in other schools as part of consortia arrangements to ensure that they can take their preferred subjects

‘Pay to play’ culture around music education condemned by Scotland’s biggest teaching union, amid prospect of cuts to instrumental tuition

Union demands reversal of teacher job cuts by end of the year as it points to extra funding for local authorities in this month’s Scottish Budget

Prime minister is warned that councils’ SEND spending deficits could result in ‘an avalanche’ of local authorities declaring effective bankruptcy

MPs will look at inclusion in mainstream schools, funding and alternatives to the EHCP system ‘without reducing support’

An estates manager for a large trust explains how gathering comprehensive information on its school buildings has enabled her trust to properly plan maintenance and find cost savings

Controversial plans to save money by reducing time pupils spend in school are shelved, in same week as Scottish government said councils had agreed to freeze learning hours

The income that schools generate themselves is now at its highest since the current form of records began

The post-pandemic funding boost to cover all NPQ courses was clearly paying off – which is why cutbacks seem ill-timed and ill-advised, says this facilitator