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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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How schools dealt with teacher strikes

How did school leaders manage their pupils and staff as NEU teacher-members walked out yesterday as part of strike action over pay?

Life after school ‘terrifying’ for pupils with ASN

Provision for additional support needs pupils after they leave school is ‘a national disgrace’ – with just one specialist college available, MSPs have been told

Strike-day Oak use double that of Omicron peak

Use of the DfE's remote-learning platform peaked as the NEU teaching union held the first of seven planned strike days yesterday

Male Ofsted inspectors ‘give primaries higher grades’

Schools' Ofsted grades can hinge on 'arbitrary' factors like inspectors' gender and whether they inspect full-time, research reveals

Teacher strikes: ‘It’s a joke to say we’re letting pupils down’

Teachers on picket lines and rallies told 91¶¶Òõ that they'd rather be in the classroom, but were striking because it's 'short-term pain for long-term gain'

More than half of schools fully or partly closed

Less than half of schools across England were reported to be fully open on the first day of teacher strike action

Keegan warned she is ‘on notice’ over further walkouts

Education secretary must 'step up with concrete and meaningful proposals' on teachers’ pay to prevent further strikes, say union leaders

SQA exam appeals will be free this year

Students will also be able to request a review of their marked exam paper directly, without having to go through their school

Has teacher pay in the UK risen with inflation, and how does it compare?

With teachers in England and Wales taking part in the first day of strike action over pay today, 91¶¶Òõ looks at teacher pay levels across the UK and how they compare with salaries in other countries

4 things we learned from watchdog’s catch-up report

Disadvantaged pupils in England 'remain further behind' than their peers after the pandemic, says the National Audit Office in report on education recovery

Announcement on SQA appeals process due ‘later this week’

One possibility is a return to the old 'post-results service' – but it could be free and learners could be given direct access

Call to tackle poorer students’ negative thinking

Counselling and coaching interventions could help to address disadvantaged students' negative thinking about their career prospects, new research suggests

NEU: ‘Appropriate’ for teachers to withhold strike plans

Union boss was asked whether teachers should tell heads of their plans for tomorrow's national walkout

Teacher strike: ‘More than half’ of secondaries to partly close

One in seven schools is set to close to all pupils during the teacher pay strike on Wednesday, a poll suggests

Support staff unions demand 12.7% pay rise

Unions also ask for a flat increase to bring the minimum hourly pay for school support staff to £15 within two years

‘Many councils’ facing teacher recruitment and retention challenges

Scottish government threatening financial sanctions if pupil-teacher ratios worsen, but councils say they can’t fill jobs in certain areas and subjects

Last-ditch talks fail to avert teacher strike

Teaching union gears up for a national strike on Wednesday after 'deeply disappointing' eleventh-hour negotiations with the education secretary

ITT reaccreditation ‘a huge distraction’, says DfE adviser

The controversial reaccreditation process for teacher training, which is set to result in the loss of around a quarter of providers, should not have gone ahead, says Professor Sam Twiselton

Keegan: Teachers should tell heads if they plan to strike

Education secretary urges NEU to help avoid 'unnecessary disruption' on Wednesday – but union dismisses her words as 'cheap point scoring'

Auschwitz victim’s story to be taught in Scottish schools

A teacher has been given the job of helping pupils learn about a Scot who refused to leave the side of hundreds of Jewish schoolgirls in Hungary during the Second World War

Students repeat online ‘mistruths’ about the Holocaust

Research into students' attitudes towards teaching about the Holocaust, published to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, also reveals that four in 10 teachers have encountered antisemitism

Strikes: Keegan’s last-ditch plea to keep schools open

The education secretary appeared resigned to teacher strikes going ahead next week as she urged leaders to keep their schools open during the action

Teacher pay must go up if education is a priority, chancellor told

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt highlighted the importance of education in a speech today

Teacher strikes: What school leaders need to know

Do schools have to report their strike plans to government? Are support staff taking part? Can heads force staff to cover classes? 91¶¶Òõ answers the 11 burning questions facing school leaders in the run-up to next week's strikes