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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