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Your roundup of 91����’ most popular news and features from the past week includes expert analysis of this week’s A-level results, as well as news of an exam board strike and tips for motivating your school support staff

Highly skilled staff are ‘languishing’ on supply lists because the Scottish government is ‘skimping’ on funding, says union boss

Exclusive: DfE to set up new teacher training taskforce in a bid to persuade more providers to expand to stop parts of the country becoming ITT ‘cold spots’

Did a surge in new teacher trainees during the pandemic lead to more teachers in the sector? Not quite – and it also threw up some other interesting insights into the teacher training landscape

The government says the rise in numbers not completing their final year of teacher training in 2020-21 was down to ‘pandemic disruption’

Researchers set out how the Covid pandemic has ‘significantly disrupted’ teacher training for early career teachers between 2019 and 2021

How much worse could the teacher recruitment problems possibly get? Matilda Martin digs into the latest ITT data to reveal the outlook for September and beyond

We chat with the founding executive director of the National Institute of Teaching and Education at Coventry University about his own school days, his wide-ranging career path and the key reforms he thinks the sector needs to thrive

There are plans to open 23 new Welsh-medium primary schools – but the government has not hit its targets for the number of Welsh language teachers

Exclusive: The founding CEO of the new ‘flagship’ teacher training provider the National Institute of Teaching has been handed the role permanently

Exclusive: The government says that any teacher training cold spots, resulting from the provider reaccreditation process, may need to be accepted ‘temporarily’

Exclusive: University ITT leaders have written to the new education secretary amid concerns over teacher supply