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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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Reception Baseline test to go digital from 2024

But schools may struggle to buy extra devices with stretched budgets, leaders warn

Minimum learning hours a step closer for Scottish schools

The Scottish government is looking to compel councils to provide a minimum amount of time in class ‘to protect the school week’, and has today started a consultation

How many pupils in your area have additional support needs?

New data shows that over half of secondary students are recorded as having an identified additional support need in some local authority areas – but in one council, the figure is less than a quarter

‘Rumbling crisis’ in behaviour management, says DfE tsar

Tom Bennett also says good work had been done in recent years and warned it has been historically 'incredibly hard' to know what behaviour is like in schools

Teachers face ‘aggression epidemic’, says SSTA

Survey finds that one in eight secondary teachers reported having been physically assaulted at work in the previous year

Schools and college links ‘strengthened by regionalisation’

A Scottish Parliament inquiry has found that college regionalisation has been good news for partnership working with schools – but colleges are being held back by funding issues

School leaders call for Ofsted pause after death of Ruth Perry

School inspections have reached a 'watershed moment', warns heads' leader, amid calls for urgent talks and a plan for a boycott

Lords seek teachers’ views on GCSEs

Inquiry wants teachers' opinions on 'the challenges and opportunities' that secondary schools face, including assessment and teacher retention

MPs launch inquiry into teacher shortages

Former schools minister says government must take urgent action on teacher recruitment and retention 'to ensure pupils receive consistent and quality teaching'

MAT school improvement probe launched

Confederation of School Trusts has launched an inquiry to measure impact of MATs on school improvement

Online Safety Bill: Just 9% of teachers think pupils will be safer

School leaders warn that the sector is 'a long way from being able to determine how effective the measures in the bill will be in practice'

Costs hike, Brexit and Covid force boarding school shake-up

State boarding schools to offer bed and breakfast and wraparound care amid 'collision' of issues as heads warn of 'upwards pressure' on fees

Scottish teachers raise concerns over backpay ‘inequality’

Teachers fear they will lose out by hundreds of pounds, following the recently agreed pay deal in Scotland, as a result of differing payroll arrangements in applying tax

SEND pressure as DfE bails out 1 in 5 councils

Fears that the latest wave of 'safety valve' deals, involving cost-cutting measures, could damage provision for the most vulnerable pupils

Government and unions to hold ‘intensive’ pay talks

Formal talks on teacher pay, conditions and workload reduction with major education unions will begin today and continue into the weekend

‘Bizarre’ ITT plan won’t help teacher shortage, experts warn

Latest DfE attempt to tackle the teacher recruitment crisis labelled a 'knee-jerk, short-term sticking plaster'

Teacher strikes LIVE: latest updates for schools

The NEU teaching union is holding the second of its last two planned strike days today, with teacher members walking out across England. You can find regular updates here

Unfunded school childcare plan not ‘sustainable’

School and sector leaders question feasibility of Treasury's new ambition for all primaries to offer wraparound care

Stem bursaries will continue, says Scottish education secretary

The £20,000 Stem bursaries are aimed at career changers wishing to undertake one-year teacher education courses in shortage secondary subjects

Revealed: 1 in 4 pupils persistently absent last spring

More than one-fifth of pupils missed 10 per cent of their sessions across the 2021-22 academic year, DfE analysis shows

Revealed: the number of pupils educated off-site

More than 30,000 pupils were regularly categorised under the controversial attendance code B by schools last term, new analysis from FFT Education Datalab shows

SNP leadership race: what should the new FM’s education priorities be?

In last night’s SNP leadership debate education finally got a mention – but do the candidates' priorities chime with the teaching profession's?

EYFS: Choke risk rules tightened

DfE makes early years foundation stage framework meal times change to "ensure safety"

Budget 2023: All primaries to provide ‘wraparound’ care

Jeremy Hunt said he wanted all primaries to offer care at both ends of the school day by September 2026 when delivering his Budget today