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‘Digital distractions’ a major reason why a third of pupils in each class need extra support with reading, according to a teacher survey

Ofsted review also finds less than half of teachers and leaders are happy with their development training

This week’s essential education news includes Ofsted scrapping its curriculum unit project and news that managed moves have ‘more than doubled’

Insiders say watchdog’s expert subject leads are now focused mainly on routine school inspection and that Ofsted’s big curriculum unit project has ‘gone’

Teacher Tapp survey results show government crackdown on short weeks was an ‘unnecessary distraction’, say headteachers’ leaders

Figures analysed for 91¶¶Òõ show the ‘difficult choices’ facing trusts and schools owing to ‘government underfunding’

A Commons Education Select Committee report into teacher shortages also calls on government to monitor the amount of flexible working schools offer

The proportion of pupils at independent schools has fallen slightly, the Independent Schools Council report shows

A prominent SNP MSP thinks the fast-track teacher-training programme is a ‘potential solution’ to Scotland’s teacher recruitment and retention problems

Schools told not to teach pupils any form of sex education until Year 5 and prevented from teaching the ‘concept of gender identity’ to all students

However, most teachers say they feel safe in school, according to a survey for the Youth Endowment Fund

The Scottish government has come under fire over its ‘abject failure’ to prioritise education – and was today told ‘fewer teachers will take us backwards’