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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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Non-specialist maths teachers need more CPD, says Ofsted

The inspectorate says the struggle to recruit and retain maths specialists is a challenge for many schools

Ofsted: 8 findings on history teaching

The inspectorate says the erosion of history as a subject has been reversed

DfE won’t publish primary progress scores for 2 years

Primary school progress scores in reading, writing and maths not being published for next two academic years after Covid Sats cancellations

Gibb: ‘Wrong to teach GCSEs over 3 years’

Schools minister Nick Gibb defends EBacc and Progress 8 against fierce criticism from Lord Baker

Teachers offered 6.5% pay deal

The government has accepted the STRB's recommendation for teacher pay in England

Strikes: Use of supply staff during walkouts ruled unlawful

Unions have won a High Court legal challenge against the government over a law allowing the use of supply staff to cover staff taking industrial action

Early years: Maths Champions ‘could help close attainment gap’

£7-per-pupil 'Maths Champions' scheme saw pupils make three months of additional progress in both maths and language development, finds analysis

Teacher strikes: NASUWT members back walkouts

Union to launch continuous action short of strikes commencing in September and consider strike dates

Teacher pay: 6.5% rise ‘unlikely’ to make ‘significant difference’

New research report says a full correction on teacher pay would need a 16.5 per cent rise for 2024

Cross-party call for £1.5bn ‘Tutoring Guarantee’

A coalition is calling on the government to ramp up spending on one-to-one tuition for disadvantaged children and scrap schools' need to match fund costs

Recruitment and retention crisis: 5 things MPs told today

MPs were warned about the challenges of running teaching apprenticeships and the lure of £40k starting salaries into other graduate professions

Teacher strikes: 6 findings on attendance last week

Data from 10,000 schools has been analysed by FFT Education Datalab to assess the impact of two days of strikes last week

Sats results 2023: No rise towards pre-Covid levels

Fewer Year 6 pupils reached the expected standard in reading this year, following controversy over a paper that left pupils 'broken'

DfE extends reading framework to key stage 3

The government has also announced a review of how writing is being taught

Sats 2023: Wait for results for second year ‘beyond belief’

Leaders said they had been 'assured' there would not be a repeat of the same problems this year

Community projects ‘boost teacher wellbeing’

Helping pupils to carry out 'social action' work brings benefits to teachers – but many schools lack time and resources, finds report

Axing private school tax breaks would have ‘weak’ impact on demand

Labour's policy to add VAT to private school fees would bring in £1.6 billion in tax revenues, finds the IFS

Revealed: Scottish school attendance figures for 2022-23

91¶¶Òõ Scotland analysis of weekly attendance snapshots school attendance struggling to recover from Covid pandemic

SQA malpractice cases drop sharply from pre-Covid high

Plagiarism the most common form of 'candidate malpractice', Scottish Qualifications Authority figures show

Strikes: ‘Funded 6.5% pay rise would stop walkouts’

NEU joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted believes the government meeting and funding a 6.5 per cent pay rise could bring an end to industrial action

SEND: ‘Cost-cutting’ deals could push councils to break law, DfE warned

Fears sounded over whether under-pressure local authorities will 'fully comply with their legal duties to children and young people with SEND'

Blair think tank calls for technological transformation

New report suggests a unique, digitalised record for every pupil could be used to tailor lessons and inform school inspection

GCSEs: AI marking is ‘miles away’, says Ofqual boss

Chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton says almost half of students and parents want to see a mix of paper and digital exams in future

Ofsted: Single-word judgements ‘aren’t wrong’, says Spielman

The chief inspector says a 'different government' might want to give the watchdog the remit to work with schools on improvement