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Education secretary calls on NEU teaching union to refer itself to UK statistics watchdog amid row over whether teacher pay offer is 'fully funded'

Data obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats shows hundreds of schools reported deficits in 2021-22, with the total amounting to more than £5.5 million

Teachers' concerns are 'deeply worrying' after last year's Sats marking failures, says union

Two union strike ballots open today, with school leaders being asked whether they support strike action over both pay and inspection

NASUWT Scotland says the teacher recruitment and retention crisis has been fuelled by 'failure to invest in the future of the profession'

There is no place in our schools for violent behaviour, Jenny Gilruth tells secondary teachers' union after being asked about the steps she is taking to protect staff

Department for Education says Sats tests are 'designed to be challenging' and to 'stretch' even the most capable amid concern over reading paper

Strike action is looming at a Glasgow private school over changes to teacher pensions – and other schools could ‘impose similar detrimental changes’ without government intervention, a union warns

New research reveals a fifth of families with children under six are living in conditions that negatively impact education attainment and health

The role of local governance in multi-academy trusts is explored in a new report by the National Governance Association – here are its key findings

MAT chief executives are sounding the alarm over how academies are being rebrokered and trusts penalised for taking on challenging schools

Impact on teachers may be 'devastating and often career ending, even if they are eventually found to have done nothing wrong', says union

Three high-profile multi-academy-trust chief executives are understood to be in the running to replace Amanda Spielman

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week's Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’

But a new survey shows widespread concerns about how manageable moving to an online system would be for schools

Next month it will be three years since Angela Morgan published her support-for-learning review. She talks about how Scottish education still needs a 'radical redesign'

Even school staff were left 'struggling to understand the questions' in yesterday's key stage 2 Sats reading paper, warns the NAHT

Think tank warns outcomes in primary maths have still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels

Academics have told a Commons committee that a review of RSE should stick to the evidence base and not react to ‘sensationalist examples’ of bad practice

Ofqual warns that putting pupils through too many assessments could have an adverse effect on some students’ mental well-being

The UK statistics watchdog responds to both DfE and NEU over row about affordability of teacher pay offer

Only one in seven teachers thinks the return to pre-pandemic course assessments in Scotland is a positive move at Higher level, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association research suggests

The next phase of the Welsh universal free meal rollout in primary will begin in September with pupils in Years 3 and 4 benefiting