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Times tables check: more than 25% get top marks

DfE announces multiplication tables results and extra maths hub funding in push towards 2030 Sats target

EYFS: ‘Significant’ drop in pupils at expected level

Less than half of disadvantaged Reception pupils at expected level, DfE data shows

Scottish primary heads: It’s time ‘to make our voices heard’

Headteachers must juggle school budgets all the time – primary heads are calling on government and councils to do the same and make them a better pay offer to stop strike action

Suspensions up on pre-pandemic levels but exclusions still lower

The number of suspensions last autumn is the highest in a single term since at least 2016

Revealed: MAT group’s warning on ‘stricken duck’ schools

The influential Queen Street Group of multi-academy trusts pledges to support small MATs and help more women to become leaders

Teachers in Scotland begin first national pay strike since 1980s

Striking teachers turn out to express 'outrage' over latest pay offer and 'determination to secure a much improved, genuinely fair' settlement

‘Very low’ attainers in Year 2 reading triple post-Covid

EEF chief executive Professor Becky Francis says 'tackling education equality' is the biggest challenge facing school system

GCSEs: ‘No big bang’ move to online exams

AQA exam board leader rules out running hybrid exams held both on and offline in different schools

National teacher pay strike in Scotland: what happens now?

With a national teacher pay strike in Scotland now certain to go ahead, here are 17 things EIS members need to know

Church plan to double minority-ethnic heads in 5 years

Church of England launches leadership scheme to support 450 minority-ethnic teachers into headship across all types of schools

Mental health ‘should be part of schools’ catch-up’

Almost half of Year 11s are above the threshold for 'probable mental ill health', new research suggests

Year 7s need bigger wellbeing focus, study warns

Celebrating students’ achievements and avoiding negative comparisons could avoid sharp decline in wellbeing, finds research

National teacher pay strike in Scotland will go ahead

After an 'insulting' teacher pay offer this afternoon, the first national pay strike since the 1980s will go ahead on Thursday

NTP could ‘hit target but miss the point’, warns union leader

Funding constraints are pushing schools to 'redesignate' staff as tutors without any extra cover, says NAHT boss

Ofsted accused of moving goalposts on ‘outstanding’ schools

Ofsted report showing high number of top-rated schools being downgraded may paint a 'misleading' picture, leader warns

Ofsted: 5 things Amanda Spielman told MPs today

Chief inspector rejects the suggestion that Ofsted might have deliberately downgraded top-rated schools

Schools need DfE transgender guidance ‘urgently’, says Spielman

Ofsted chief inspector says schools need help from the government to 'navigate' their way through a 'minefield'

Early years: Poor pupils make less progress in richer areas

New research shows that those eligible for free school meals have poorer educational outcomes in affluent areas compared with more deprived ones

Ofsted: 83% of ‘outstanding’ schools downgraded in full inspection

Top-rated primary schools almost twice as likely to be downgraded than secondaries after 'outstanding' inspection exemption lifted

‘Nearly half’ of schools use non-specialist maths teachers

The teacher shortage is forcing schools to use measures that could 'drag' down pupil outcomes, experts warn

Warning as PE ‘squeezed out’ for exam students

Curriculum and accountability pressures in schools have resulted in a 20 per cent fall in allocated PE lessons for GCSE students, research suggests

NTP: Gibb refuses to back ‘common-sense’ subsidy change

Exclusive: heads' union had asked the DfE to consider dropping the requirement for schools to top up catch-up tutoring funding

Scottish teacher pay strike: 24 hours to avert action

Scotland's biggest teachers' union has set out the timeline it is working to, including the last moment the government could table a fresh pay offer

Secondary head gender pay gap widens by over a third

The gender pay gap for secondary school leaders has jumped by 37 per cent in a year, new analysis shows