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Scottish teaching union calls for ‘pay justice’ priority in 2023

Teachers also advised to keep close eye on their pay packets after concerns raised about excessive deductions following strike action

Ofqual chair is knighted in New Year Honours

Ofqual chair Ian Bauckham and former school and college trust boss Sally Dicketts are among leading honours recipients

Union leaders call for automatic free school meals

ASCL general secretary Geoff Barton said it was 'deeply worrying' that so many pupils currently miss out

Ministers urged to ensure 230,000 pupils don’t miss out on free school meals

New analysis from the Liberal Democrats suggests 234,500 pupils entitled to FSM in England are not registered for them

Teachers injured or assaulted at work receive financial settlements

Biggest award made to victim of assault by pupil, who suffered a brain bleed and was absent from work for nine months

Union condemns ‘shameful’ delay in free meals for P6-7s

Full rollout of free school meals to all primary pupils now looks like it will happen, at best, two years after original target date

DfE catch-up spending probe under fire

Dozens of schools told just before Christmas they will face an NTP funding audit in the new year

Charities ‘should have bigger role in Scottish schools’

Report from Reform Scotland also recommends allowing individual donors more involvement in schools

Revealed: How schools have tried to save Christmas

Presents, airbeds and hampers – a 91¶¶Òõ survey reveals the extra efforts schools have been forced to make to stop pupils and staff falling through the costs-crisis net this Christmas

Legal challenge over sex education in Wales rejected

High Court judge rules against campaigners who challenged the teaching of relationships and sexuality education in primary schools

Over 10% of lessons missed as illness surged in December

New data shows absence was as high two weeks ago as it was at a similar point during high Covid rates last year

Keegan urges ‘top earner’ teachers not to strike

Education secretary says the extra funding announced last month has gone a 'long way to easing a lot of the pressures' on schools

Trainee educational psychologists call for funding overhaul

New educational psychologists in Scotland say their training is undermined by a 'meagre' bursary and that they are struggling to make ends meet

‘Whole subjects’ disappearing from rural schools

Scottish Parliament hears that some subjects, including languages, are vulnerable as local authorities face extreme budget pressures

Teacher stress ‘heightened’ by late exam decisions

Ofqual research into the experiences of teachers and students in 2021, when exams were cancelled, recommends a review of how exam boards communicate in 'periods of uncertainty'

Scottish heads demand ‘more imaginative’ assessment

School Leaders Scotland brands the current exam-focused assessment system as a 'colossal waste of learning time', in its submission to the qualifications review

‘Worsening’ risk of school buildings collapsing, says DfE

The safety risk posed by dilapidated school buildings is now being investigated by a cross-governmental group of top officials, DfE report reveals

Teaching union announces more Scottish strike dates

Scottish teaching unions will take combined strike action over pay on the same two days in January

Call for antisemitism lessons amid rise in pupil hate

All secondaries should be required to teach about contemporary antisemitism, urges government adviser Lord Mann

More teachers buying pupils clothes and food

More teachers are stepping in to help pupils with non-academic matters than five years ago, according to research for the new Commission on Teacher Retention

Revealed: 32.5-hour week target missing from Ofsted reports

School leaders' unions call for clarity on government plan for a minimum 32.5-hour week

Primary pupil illness matches Omicron peak

Absence last week matches highest rate during January Covid wave, with 7.1 per cent of primary pupils off school ill

DfE reveals special schools’ 3.4% minimum cash boost

Special schools still face 'huge pressure' despite funding increase next year, school leaders warn

Teachers feel ‘powerless’ over pupil safety

Government report on serious case reviews says relations between schools and children's social care in a 'stalemate'