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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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Revealed: What the biggest MATs paid their CEOs

91¶¶Òõ reveals the salaries of the chief executives of trusts with 25 schools or more after analysis of their latest accounts

‘Urgent’ call for consistency on MAT leaders’ pay

91¶¶Òõ analysis of CEO salaries at 'outlier' trusts shows the need for national pay framework, say leaders

MPs: DfE bill should ensure ‘auto-enrolment’ for free school meals

The Commons Education Select Committee also warns that the government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill has had a 'rushed and inadequate' timetable

Swinney grilled over attainment gap and ASL

The SNP's mission to close the disadvantage-related attainment gap has become a 'defining failure', Scottish Labour leader tells first minister

Schools told to do more to keep pupils out of youth justice system

Children’s commissioner says schools should be required to outline how sanctions like suspensions will trigger additional support

Audit Scotland publishes ‘damning’ report on support for ASN pupils

There's an ‘urgent need for improvement’, says the watchdog – as it questions whether schools can cope with the almost eight-fold increase in additional support needs pupils

Ministers urged to ensure climate change is taught across curriculum

Experts say teachers want more professional development support to teach climate change and sustainability

Ofsted to test new inspection toolkits in schools

Visits to schools will also test whether different inspectors reach the same judgement about strengths and areas of improvement

SQA reveals names of CEO and chief examining officer as roles are split

New interim CEO vows to 'serve with humility' and learn from the past 'by being more open to criticism, challenge and scrutiny'

SEND: £740m funding won’t tackle main challenges, MPs told

The Commons Education Committee held a session today on special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Here are six things MPs were told

Primary school PE training ‘woefully inadequate’, MPs told

The chief executive of Youth Sport Trust calls for PE to become a core subject to ‘drive up standards’ and improve fitness

CEO of David Ross Education Trust to step down

Stuart Burns has led the 36-school academy trust for five years

Attainment gap widens for 2023-24 Scottish school leavers

Official figures also show more Scottish students leaving school earlier – over 8,000 school leavers were in S4 in 2023-24, at just over 14 per cent of the cohort

Revealed: the advisers to the DfE’s edtech evidence board

91¶¶Òõ can reveal the full list of advisers for the board, which will look at how to build evidence around artificial intelligence tools in schools

‘Alternative’ Ofsted survey asks if report cards are fit for purpose

Former senior HMI have launched their own survey to run in parallel with Ofsted's official consultation

Special schools employ more teachers without QTS

Special schools face worse teacher shortages, particularly in alternative provision, research shows

Podcasts in class could tackle reading ‘crisis’

Children's enjoyment of listening to audio has now surpassed that of reading, finds survey

Nearly 1 in 3 children ‘refused to go to school in past year’

Top reasons for absence were children not enjoying school, having a mental health problem or a special educational need, and being bullied, finds parent poll

750 schools named for free breakfast clubs pilot

Just over one in three pupils covered by the pilot are at schools based in a deprived area

Call to ‘reset’ SEND funding so schools can meet local needs

Confederation of School Trusts sets out 10 priorities for a new special educational needs and disabilities system

EEF trials 5-day Shakespeare training for primary teachers

The training is one part of 11 research projects the Education Endowment Foundation has launched to build evidence in writing and secondary maths

Don’t withdraw breaktime to punish poor behaviour, schools told

Interim report from Raising the Nation Play Commission proposes that Ofsted assesses schools on playtime length, which would ‘reward schools that value play highly’

‘Clear line’ needed between school subjects and jobs, says Scottish Labour

Labour also promises to make Pupil Equity Fund money a 'permanent' feature in Scottish schools and to help headteachers make longer-term staffing plans

International schools group recruits MAT CEO

Rob Tarn will join GEMS Education's First Schools Management division after eight years at a large multi-academy trust in the North of England