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Somerville: If a teacher gives you an A, you get an A
No one is coming to overrule a teacher's judgement of a student's grade, says education secretary
Judy Murray: I want my sons to leave a schools legacy
Lack of tennis courts should not deter state schools from playing tennis, says top coach
Bring back face masks in class now, teachers demand
Schools with 'poor ventilation' should also be helped amid spread of Delta variant, government told
Former Ofsted boss returns to school as interim head
Sir Michael Wilshaw takes over as interim head of Jewish comprehensive school in north-west London
GCSEs 2021: Cut appeals with transparency, schools told
Exam board guidance tells schools to be open with students about the evidence used to determine GCSE and A-level grades
Sturgeon: Teen vaccines could prevent school disruption
Vaccination could be 'important way of giving children greater protection', says first minister
‘Lack of Covid guidance puts pregnant teachers at risk’
Government guidance is vague and outdated – so how can pregnant teachers protect themselves, asks Victoria Addis
A third of secondary students off in virus hotspot
Heads describe stats showing national school attendance down to 88 per cent in the week before half-term as 'worrying'
Banned: Teacher who had sex with student
Teacher had 'inappropriate relationship' with youth band member, including buying her a sex toy
Catch-up: ‘Did the right man resign?’ Williamson asked
Education secretary faced gasps and groans from MPs as he defended the Department for Education's school catch-up plan in Parliament today
Banned: ‘Excessively tactile’ teacher who hugged pupils
A teacher who admitted to being in the habit of hugging students has been banned from the profession for two years
Williamson: ‘Too many schools’ restricting lunch hours
Education secretary criticises schools over shortened lunch breaks as he outlines plan to review length of school day
Fresh call for cuts to class sizes and contact time
Dramatic reductions in class sizes and contact time envisaged by 2030 in proposals tabled at EIS conference
School catch-up plan is ‘bargain basement’, DfE told
Education minister accused of 'defending the indefensible' over school Covid recovery plan in the House of Lords
Teacher training applications at a ‘50 year high’
Numbers applying to go into teaching at a major teacher training provider in the south of England are now at their highest ever level
Teachers taking second jobs to ‘put food on the table’
Concerns over teachers on 'zero-hour contracts' raised in an open letter to the education secretary
Ofsted: 9 barriers facing languages teaching
Low expectations and a lack of CPD are among the issues affecting the take-up of modern languages, says Ofsted
Keep Year 11s in school? They need to run free
Ofsted thinks GCSE students should remain in school – but Tabitha McIntosh says they desperately need a long summer
Covid: Call to ‘quickly’ vaccinate secondary students
As schools reopen today, former government adviser also urges ministers to rethink policy on removing masks
At-risk children may have been unlawfully held - report
Children’s commissioner Bruce Adamson found that young people were detained for up to 572 days
Free meals expansion for primary pupils is confirmed
All pupils in primary schools to be eligible for free school meals by August 2022
Second lockdown ‘set learning loss back to the autumn’
Poorer pupils lost between one- and two-thirds of last decade's progress in closing disadvantage gap, report finds
New Covid catch-up cash in autumn ‘could be too late’
Education recovery funding could come too late if announced in the autumn, warns the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Covid data shows schools in ‘precarious situation’
New data released by Public Health England reveals infections are highest in those aged 10 to 19 years old