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Most teachers to pay less into their pension under new plans

DfE launches consultation on cutting employee contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme across most salary bands

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‘Green shoots’ on attendance, says Baroness Barran

DfE minister spoke in the House of Lords today to give new information on attendance and the plan for an out-of-school register – here are the key points from her speech

Plan school places ‘constructively’ with councils, trusts told

Making significant changes to an academy: four key points from updated DfE guidance

Gilruth calls for end to widespread dual presentation

Education secretary says presenting students for an N4 and N5 in the same subject is leading to 'unnecessary additional workload' and damaging students' confidence

Project to track teacher training impact on pupils

TIDE aims to bring together data to explore how or what approaches to teacher training, classroom practice and CPD impact pupil outcomes

Funding needed to keep NI schools open, warns new minister

Education 'cannot continue with current levels of capital funding', says Northern Ireland's new minister

Cutting tutoring funding would be ‘national travesty’

Schools have indicated they could not afford to carry on providing catch-up tutoring if the government stops the NTP subsidy

Rural secondaries ‘struggling to provide basic education’

Falling student rolls are leading to staffing cuts in rural secondary schools in Scotland, warn parents – who are demanding a guaranteed core curriculum for all pupils

RAAC heads call for timescale on rebuilding plans

With 119 RAAC-affected schools being told they will be rebuilt, heads warn they 'do not want to waste public money' on temporary solutions

Higher absence and suspension rates ‘more likely’ in large trusts

Multi-academy trusts with 10 or more schools in a phase also achieve higher attainment and progress for disadvantaged pupils, finds Education Policy Institute

Pandemic: Call for action on language development

Post-Covid call comes as NHS data shows increase in number of children and young people waiting for speech and language therapy

Over 50% of special school pupils could be in mainstream, says DfE report

Evaluation for DfE suggests majority of reviewed pupils with SEND in Delivering Better Value areas could have their needs met within mainstream schools

RAAC schools not expected to provide wraparound childcare

All schools will be expected to provide wraparound childcare on their site, 'unless there is a reasonable justification not to', DfE confirms in new guidance

Weekly round-up: ‘Earn and learn’ route into teaching and MAT deficits

This week’s essential education news includes the government launching its Teacher Degree Apprenticeship and new research uncovering multi-academy trusts' worsening finances

Biggest MAT dismisses DfE minimum service plan

United Learning warns it is 'inconceivable' that any 'rational' school employers would issue work notices compelling teachers not to strike

More than 100 schools with RAAC will be rebuilt

The government today announced which schools containing the potentially dangerous concrete will be rebuilt and which will be given a grant to remove it

Extend catch-up cash or attainment gap will widen, PM told

More than 500 schools have signed a letter to Rishi Sunak, Gillian Keegan and Jeremy Hunt calling for more National Tutoring Programme funding in next month's spring Budget

‘Deeply troubling’ gender gap in maths and science confidence

Significantly more girls lack confidence in learning maths and science than boys, a Teach First survey has found

Call to scrap literacy and numeracy SNSAs at all stages

SNSAs lead to schools being judged ‘inappropriately’ and are 'inconsistent' with a play-based approach in early primary, says Willie Rennie

Huge rise in pupil mental health emergencies

Increase in child referrals for emergency mental health treatment follows headteachers' warnings about a 'tsunami' hitting schools

Academy trust GAG pooling could triple, research shows

Four in 10 academy trusts surveyed said they wanted to move to a GAG pooling finance model

Heads call for Ofsted exemption for RAAC schools

The 'unacceptable' time it has taken for the government to act on the RAAC crisis is causing 'financial detriment' to schools, ASCL warns

Scots language ‘milestone’ reached with course for teachers

Teachers across a wide range of subjects and sectors have signed up to a course that underlines the 'transformative role' Scots language can play in schools

Barran: RAAC-hit schools ‘left on their own’ by councils

Academies minister says the DfE is 'worried about the support some primary schools are getting from their local authorities'

Big rise in academy trusts with in-year deficits

The latest Kreston UK Academies Benchmark Report has found that more trusts are having to eat into their reserves as they cope with financial uncertainty