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Most teachers to pay less into their pension under new plans
DfE launches consultation on cutting employee contribution rates for the Teachers’ Pension Scheme across most salary bands
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SEND: Resource bases ‘can be exclusion in its worst sense’
Mainstream and AP leaders question the government's focus on resourced provision and SEN units in its drive to create a more inclusive school system
Teachers far more likely than students to say phone rules are followed
Findings from the latest DfE behaviour survey also indicate that leaders, educators and pupils disagree about the extent to which their school is 'calm and orderly'
Scottish teacher workload ‘incompatible with sustainable career’
'Serious risk to health and safety' posed by workload, says Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association after surveying members
Reduced class contact time measures announced in Scotland
Four-day teacher working week, dedicated day for professional activities and minimum pupil learning hours proposed, but union expresses 'deep disappointment' at handling of announcement
Cognita replaces CEO with finance chief on interim basis
Frank Maassen left in September, with Andreas Tolpeit taking over while the schools group seeks a new permanent CEO
Year 4 pupils continue to improve in times tables check
Average attainment in the multiplication tables check has risen, and 37 per cent of pupils are now getting full marks
Government funds research to spot SEND needs earlier by 2028
Science minister Lord Vallance says £4 million research programme aims to support faster intervention
Two-thirds of teachers support children in poverty every month
Teachers cite pupils attending school without breakfast, sleeping on sofas and not having basic equipment as examples of where they needed to step in
Focus on disadvantaged boys to hit school-ready target, DfE told
Successive governments have failed to tackle entrenched inequalities in early years outcomes for boys from low-income backgrounds, IfG report warns
Breakfast clubs funding rises after schools raise concerns
The Department for Education says it has boosted funding for free school breakfast clubs by 28 per cent, after leaders warned the money was falling far short
School funding to fall by up to 4% in real terms, expert warns
Government's headline rise to minimum per-pupil funding largely reflects grants being rolled into the NFF, leaving schools facing real-terms cuts, says Simon Oxenham
Ofsted school inspection window ‘could be tightened’
Teacher and leader wellbeing is 'built into every aspect' of the new approach to inspection, says chief inspector Sir Martyn Oliver
RISE impact ‘will be seen by Christmas’
'Monitoring' of the first batch of schools going through the new regional school improvement system is taking place this term, says DfE official
Extra funding needed to overcome rural barriers to ITT
A lack of housing availability and poor public transport have limited teacher training to local residents in Cornwall, according to a report
School leaders can’t be ‘jack of all trades’, report warns
The expectation of ‘hero leaders’ is causing a fragmented approach across schools and trusts, and ultimately risking pupil outcomes, says report
COBIS accreditation scheme approved in Saudi Arabia
Move welcomed by UK's Department for Business and Trade as a positive step in the country's international education expansion strategy
Teachers should ‘whinge more’, Jess Phillips tells heads
Schools have not been thanked enough for the level of support they are asked to take on, Home Office minister also says
No ‘positive outcomes’ in SEND inspections this summer
Just one out of 18 SEND area inspections carried out by Ofsted and the CQC so far this year has resulted in the top inspection rating, data shows
Staff wellbeing at its lowest since 2019, data shows
More than a third of education staff are also at risk of clinical depression, according to charity Education Support
Reform deputy says pupils wearing ear defenders in class is ‘insane’
Reform's deputy leader claims there is 'over-diagnosis' of neurodiverse conditions, appearing at an event where a former Ofsted chief says dyslexia just means 'bad at reading'
EPI chief executive Natalie Perera moving to AQA
The exam board has also appointed United Learning's director of curriculum and assessment as its chief qualifications officer
SEND system heading for ‘total collapse’, councils warn
More than half of councils would go bankrupt overnight if temporary measures shielding them from their SEND debts were removed, research shows
15-fold increase in DfE influencer spend since 2022
Exclusive data obtained by 91¶¶Òõ shows the Department for Education spent more than £200,000 on influencer marketing from April to October this year
Extra enrichment isn’t possible, teachers warn
The DfE is introducing enrichment benchmarks to push schools to deliver more extracurricular clubs – but research shows that teachers are already working unpaid and out of hours to deliver such activities