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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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Revealed: How Ofsted wants schools to teach art and design

Seven key recommendations from the watchdog's latest subject-focused research review

Female teachers ‘work 81 days a year for free’

Teachers and education staff in England face the second biggest gender pay gap of any sector, according to new research

Scottish primary school leaders’ body calls off strike action

Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland has voted to accept revised teacher pay offer made last week – but NASUWT Scotland union votes to reject

Somerville grilled over teacher numbers pledge

The decision has caused ‘chaos’ in councils and is leading to ‘massive cuts’ in other services, claim opposition politicians

DfE developing new teaching degree apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are currently offered as a teacher training route, but only at postgraduate level

Teachers won’t strike if DfE makes ‘serious’ new pay offer

NEU stands firm over strikes but Downing Street said there will be 'no talks' if next week's strike action is not cancelled first

Teachers ‘might wish to delay’ becoming SQA markers

EIS teaching union says it is up to individual teachers if they want to be SQA markers, even though ‘targeting of SQA-related activity’ is ‘outwith the scope of the current industrial action’

Revealed: What the big academy trusts paid their top leaders

Most academy trusts with 25 schools or more increased the salary band of their top earner last year, 91¶¶Òõ analysis reveals

10 questions with...Melanie Renowden

The chief executive officer of the National Institute of Teaching recalls how she was 'won over by the wonder of maths' at school and explains why education quality and staff development go hand in hand

Safeguarding: Warning over risk of pupil ‘tragedy’

Department for Education given six months to set out plan to improve support for vulnerable adolescents

Research to see if strict behaviour rules boost attendance

Education Endowment Foundation also launches a trial looking at whether secondary students can improve their classmates' attendance

DfE recommends 3% pay rise for experienced teachers

The proposal comes after education secretary Gillian Keegan invited unions to new formal pay talks on the condition that next week’s teacher strikes are called off

Keegan urges NEU to call off next week’s strike for pay talks

Teaching union is dismissive of education secretary Gillian Keegan's call for strikes to be cancelled to allow for formal pay negotiations

Pay teachers more to improve retention, Somerville told

Some teachers are turning to food banks and considering quitting to work in supermarkets, Scottish Parliament hears

Ofsted inspection support staff to strike for 12 days

Staff who support inspectors by fielding queries from schools are set to walk out in a dispute over pay

School meals debt guidance published in Scotland

Struggling families owe more than £1 million in school meal debt across Scotland, according to research that warns of 'hidden hunger' in secondary schools

Northern Irish teachers on half-day strike over ‘future of profession’

The harm caused by 'systematic underfunding' in education over the past decade is 'the real threat' to children's futures – not strike action, says union

Schools need more help to tackle pupil absence ‘crisis’, MPs told

Sending more personalised messages to parents could improve attendance, researchers suggest

All London primary pupils to get free school meals for a year

Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes the one-off £130 million scheme will help struggling households during the cost-of-living crisis

Research paints ‘gloomy picture’ of secondary education in Scotland

Pressure to drive up attainment is ‘invariably taking precedence’ over the aspirations of Curriculum for Excellence, research finds

Faith is a barrier to discussing LGBT+ issues, say teachers

Teachers in faith schools more likely to say that religion has been a barrier in talking about LGBT+ topics, research shows

Thousands of teachers can reclaim student loan cash

More than 4,000 former teacher trainees started repaying student loans before they had to, 91¶¶Òõ analysis reveals

Automating FSM ‘would create schools cash boost’

Town hall leaders call for free school meals to be extended and automated to ensure more pupils benefit

Teacher pay review deadline shifted to after Budget

Timetable for teacher pay recommendations has changed after DfE missed deadline