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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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DfE announces £196m to recruit more teachers

But headteachers' leaders warn that focus is also needed on retaining teachers

Labour still ‘working on’ how to recruit 6,500 more teachers

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Bridget Phillipson also said Gillian Keegan has become a 'one-woman attack ad factory'

DfE’s funding blunder: everything you need to know

Late last week, the government revealed it had made a mistake in its school funding calculations for next year. But what does this mean for schools, councils and trusts?

Call for maximum 35-hour week for teachers

Union wants a 'New Deal for Teachers' including 'real-terms pay restoration' and action to cut workload and improve teacher-pupil ratios

Edinburgh teacher wins award for antiracism work

Hardeep Kaur has led staff training showing the impact of microaggressions and the importance of correctly pronouncing the names of BAME learners

Labour: ‘Dreaded’ Ofsted inspections ‘ineffective’

Ofsted is exacerbating the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, says shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell at Labour's annual conference

Labour ready for ‘fight’ over RAAC and private school taxes

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party conference that Rishi Sunak can 'bring it on' if he wants a fight over which party has more aspiration for children

Teachers to join DfE’s AI workload reduction trial

The government is holding a 'hackathon' to allow schools to experiment with artificial intelligence in areas such as lesson planning and exam marking

Unions set to question DfE over school funding error

It comes after the NEU's Daniel Kebede said that there were 'grounds to reopen' the teacher pay and funding dispute

Teachers ‘must be protected from policy pendulum swings’

The next government needs to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' with education policy, National Institute of Teaching chief tells the Labour Party conference

Remove all asbestos within 40 years, teaching unions warn

A coalition of trade unions is calling for the material, which has been linked to cancer, to be removed from all public buildings, including schools

SEND support celebrated at Nasen Awards

Schools, teachers, pupils and organisations all honoured at annual awards party in Birmingham

DfE apologises over error in school funding calculation

Gillian Keegan has ordered a formal review after her department revealed a mistake in the national funding formula allocations for schools for 2024-25

DfE to reissue school funding calculation after error

Gillian Keegan orders review after a mistake was spotted in the 2024-25 National Funding Formula allocation

Teaching quality efforts ‘crushed’ by rising poverty

Next prime minister must create taskforce to fix child poverty so schools can focus on educational impact, says former DfE senior adviser Sam Freedman

VAT loopholes make Labour private school plan ‘tricky’

After-school clubs and reduced VAT on boarding school students could reduce tax bill for independent schools if Labour pushes ahead with fee levy, say experts

Lack of exam data ‘put Ofsted under pressure’

Chief inspector shares her experiences and tells academy trust sector conference that MAT inspections are inevitable

Covid inquiry: ‘Mistake’ to keep schools shut

Former children’s tsar tells inquiry the government failed to ‘realistically prepare’ for Covid lockdowns and mitigate their long-term impact on pupils

91¶¶Òõ News podcast conference special: The end of A levels?

Join the 91¶¶Òõ News team as we discuss the prime minister's plan for a new post-16 qualification, the Advanced British Standard, and look ahead to the Labour Party's conference in Liverpool

Labour Party conference: What can teachers expect?

After Rishi Sunak revealed his big plan for post-16 education at his party's conference, how will the opposition respond?

Barran: Each school should get a DfE attendance ‘deep dive’

The academies minister said a 'more detailed diagnostic on the root causes of non-attendance' is needed

DfE drawing up country-wide MAT growth plans

The DfE is looking at producing subregional plans for areas such as London, setting out how it expects trusts to grow, a regional director has revealed

‘Outstanding’ grade ‘out of reach’ for ‘good’ schools

91¶¶Òõ analysis showing huge fall in 'good' schools being given the top rating by Ofsted reveals how it is now a 'binary' inspection grading system, warn leaders

Fears catch-up progress will be lost as schools face costs struggle

Some schools are questioning the point of getting tutoring 'up and running' when funds are set to disappear next year