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No A-level results for 58,000 students who dropped out

Education secretary Lucy Powell prioritises tackling the Neet crisis and insists the newly announced technical education routes will not create a ‘two-tier system’

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Just 1 in 10 school leaders trust pay review body

Headteachers' union says that the STRB 'has lost the confidence of the profession' after snap poll

Pam Duncan-Glancy named Scottish Labour education spokeswoman

Michael Marra, who had been the party’s education spokesman at Holyrood, now becomes Labour’s finance spokesman

School nurture approaches could ‘mask’ behaviour issues, union says

Employers 'cannot simply choose to ignore or underestimate the dangers of violent pupils', says NASUWT general secretary

NASUWT to re-ballot teachers over strike action

All four teaching unions have now rejected the government's pay offer

‘Wake up’ to Stem teacher shortage, ministers warned

NASUWT president will plead for action on teacher recruitment in a speech at the teachers' union's annual conference in Glasgow today

Heads ‘in dark’ as 32.5-hour school week deadline looms

Schools will struggle to implement policy after eight-month delay to guidance, DfE warned

Rising housing costs hitting young teachers’ work

The NASUWT teaching union's annual conference is taking place this weekend

Teacher strikes: ‘Pay fight might not be won this year’

Outgoing NEU joint general secretaries warn Gillian Keegan to 'do her job' as they admit dispute might not be won on their watch

SEND: Teachers struggle to ‘paper over cracks’ of broken system

NASUWT survey reveals just 3% of teachers say pupils with special educational needs or disabilities always receive the support to which they are entitled

Mental health leads: over 8 in 10 teachers don’t get enough support

Just 8 per cent of teachers who responded to an NEU survey said they had sufficient access to Camhs support

Ofsted crisis: Call on heads to quit inspection

NEU members back action to put pressure on Ofsted following the death of headteacher Ruth Perry

Specialist RSE lessons ‘could cut sexual violence by a sixth’

Youth Endowment Fund analysis suggests students could be given the tools to spot early signs of unhealthy relationships

Exams 2023: Pearson hires Ofqual standards chief

Cath Jadhav set to move to the exam board after last year's Btec woes

Headteachers vote to reject pay offer

A third education union has rejected the government's proposed pay deal for teachers – and most members say they would take industrial action

Nearly one in five teachers have taken second jobs

Almost a quarter of teachers say they skip meals in survey revealing 'stark reality' of how cost of living is affecting school staff, according to union

Level up pay across UK or lose teachers, DfE warned

The government's pay offer would leave experienced teachers in England more than £10k worse off than in Scotland, hitting retention in bordering counties, heads warn

Northern Irish teachers to strike later this month

Full day of action in Northern Ireland follows half-day strike in February, and is likely to see most schools close

Return to pre-Covid assessment puts ‘procedures before welfare’

Scottish Qualifications Authority insists that bringing back coursework 'provides learners with a more balanced approach to assessment'

NEU votes for more summer strikes

The teaching union plans three more days of action and will re-ballot members on whether to extend strikes until after Christmas

ASCL members reject government pay offer

School leaders' union follows NEU teaching union in turning down the proposed deal, and will now discuss the option of industrial action

NEU tables urgent vote on strikes from September 

Teachers at the NEU teaching union annual conference are also set to debate the possibility of a 4-day strike during key stage 2 Sats week

NEU rejects government’s teacher pay offer

This means that two new national strike dates will go ahead on 27 April and 2 May

Half of teachers in England say workload is unmanageable

NEU teaching union survey finds more than 75 per cent of teachers feel stressed at work for the majority of the time

Daniel Kebede to take over as NEU chief

Mr Kebede will replace Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney as the union's general secretary in September