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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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Ofsted crisis: Heads union set to launch legal action

NAHT calls for inspections to be suspended over staff mental health risks as it announces plans for judicial review

Sudden end to school holiday food grants in NI

Counselling and Covid education recovery programmes in Northern Ireland also cancelled immediately, in move condemned as 'outrageous'

Scottish school offers online courses in shortage subjects

Students will be able to study Higher computing science and applications of mathematics remotely for up to £795 per course

Schools ordered to share RHSE materials

Letter to go to schools today as review announced that will see Oak National Academy produce 'high-quality, compliant resources'

School mental health teams struggle to keep staff amid rising need

Flagship government school mental health support teams face exodus of specialist workers who feel ‘in over their head’ amid lack of wider service gaps to support pupils

Revealed: The DfE’s academy trust merger drive

DfE academy growth guidance for Education Investment Areas shows that multi-academy trusts are being urged to ensure that the smallest schools are not left isolated

Pupil learning will ‘suffer’ with rising school vacancies

The warning from a school leaders' union comes as new research shows there are almost 40,000 job vacancies in UK nursery, primary and secondary schools

DfE tells heads pay deal is affordable ‘on average’

Officials tell webinar that schools that find themselves in 'challenging financial circumstances' should contact ESFA or their local authority

Teacher pay offer: is it affordable for schools?

The DfE says schools will be given enough cash to cover its proposed teacher pay deal, but heads' and teachers' unions disagree. What do the numbers tell us?

Scottish secondary teachers ‘ready to boycott’ 2024 exams

Reversion to pre-Covid coursework and exams described as 'a bad news story for all secondary school teachers and the young people they teach'

Keegan: ‘I know heads care deeply about pupils’

Education secretary issued plea to school leaders in an email last night, setting out how its new teacher pay offer would be funded

Sats 2023: League table return ‘wrong’ amid catch-up efforts

Teachers should be able to focus on lost learning support without accountability ‘looming’ over them, say primary school leaders

Check homework policy for AI risk, DfE advises schools

Four key points for schools from the government's latest advice on artificial intelligence in education

Former teacher Jenny Gilruth is Scotland’s new education secretary

Shirley-Anne Somerville replaced as Humza Yousaf appoints his first cabinet, a day after becoming first minister

Covid modifications to end next year for ‘most’ SQA qualifications

Coursework and exams for practical subjects – which were removed in response to the Covid pandemic – will return next year, says SQA, but move is criticised by teaching union

Why all teachers must ‘get better at asking good questions’

If teachers want their students to learn they need to make them think – and the best way to do that is through carefully designed questions, says this Scottish headteacher

7 in 10 pupils on universal credit not eligible for free school meals

New report says extending free meals to all primary and secondary pupils whose families are on universal credit would benefit poorer pupils but bring spending up to £2.5 billion a year

Keegan: AI ‘could cut time-draining teacher tasks’

The education secretary will make the comments at the BETT show in London today

Pay offer ‘worst possible’ outcome for schools

School leaders have warned of more cuts ahead after the government confirmed schools would be expected to meet most of the increase from existing budgets

Coursework should be completed under ‘direct supervision’ amid AI fears

Schools should make students aware of the 'risk' of the use of artificial intelligence to complete coursework, says the JCQ

Concern over inspections of special schools, MPs told

Special schools not always getting specialist Ofsted inspectors, cross-party Education Committee is told

Heads to consider industrial action in response to pay deal

The NAHT school leaders' union has broken its silence on the government's pay offer, calling it 'inadequate'

NEU: We don’t want to disrupt exams

If members reject new government pay offer, two further days of strike action will be planned next term, says union

School buildings cash too little to fix ‘shameful neglect’, DfE told

DfE funding announcement comes after school buildings have been left 'on the point of collapse', warns heads' union