General
Friday
29th Dec 2023
Ruth Miskin appointed Dame in New Year Honours
Academy trust CEOs, heads and teachers among the appointees in the King’s New Year Honours list
Call to reverse ‘deep cuts’ to education in Scotland
Amid disappointment over a lack of new ideas for education in this month’s Scottish Budget, campaigners aim to step up their drive for more money and resources
Wednesday
27th Dec 2023
EIS calls for free school meals for all pupils
Christmas holidays underline the argument for universal free school meals, says Scotland’s biggest teaching union
More than 1,000 Scottish schools lack life-saving defibrillators
Importance of defibrillators in schools ‘cannot be overemphasised’, say Scottish Conservatives as they highlight ‘deeply alarming’ data
Thursday
21st Dec 2023
Teacher pay body warned to ‘assert its independence’
Unions tell teacher pay body not to feel ‘constrained’ after Gillian Keegan asks it to take financial pressures into account in recommending pay rise for 2024-25
British Sign Language GCSE set to launch in 2025
The Department of Education has announced the new BSL qualification after the consultation was delayed twice
Wednesday
20th Dec 2023
Williamson: 2021 school closures were ‘wrong’
Shutting schools in January 2021 was a ‘panic decision’ and against the best interests of pupils, the former education secretary tells Covid inquiry
Ofsted inspections ‘untenable’ until February, say unions
School inspections by the watchdog should cease until the government and Ofsted have published the plan requested by Ruth Perry coroner, say heads’ leaders
Tuesday
19th Dec 2023
Ministers urged to bring down Camhs waiting times
Labour analysis claims 270,000 young people waited longer than three months to be seen or had their referrals closed
Ruth Perry: Risk of future deaths, coroner warns
The coroner who led the inquest into the death of headteacher Ruth Perry has raised concerns with Ofsted and the DfE