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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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Heads’ and teachers’ wellbeing in ‘profound crisis’

New data on teacher and headteacher wellbeing, workload, supply teaching and teaching assistants was published today. Here's what you need to know

Violence in schools in focus again after Fife EIS survey

Teachers report growing concerns about abuse from parents on social media amid what the union describes as a 'sustained crisis' of violence and aggression in many schools

Demand soars for ‘emergency’ school improvement cash

91¶¶Òõ investigation also reveals that most multi-academy trusts end up taking on schools they have helped using DfE grant

Delay private school fee VAT charge or lose teachers ‘permanently’

Headteachers' and teachers' leaders have urged ministers to delay implementation of the government's school fee levy to next September, and to carry out an impact assessment

Experienced teacher pay 9% below 2010 levels despite rise

The 5.5% pay rise is 'unlikely' to improve recruitment and retention difficulties, warns the Institute for Fiscal Studies

ASN: ‘We cannot ignore the enormity of the situation’

Scotland should be ashamed of how children with additional support needs are treated in schools, MSPs tell education secretary

School-based nurseries rollout: what we know so far

The education secretary has announced funding for the first phase of its early years provision expansion, but questions remain about staffing and private sector involvement

School inspection in Scotland: ‘Something has been going wrong’

Influential figures in Scottish education call for a truly independent inspectorate to emerge from reforms amid concerns that existing approaches fail to provide a national overview

Call to update exam body’s ‘ageing digital infrastructure’

Around £10 million is needed to bring the technology at Scotland’s qualifications body up to date, says SQA chief executive – who blames its outdated IT systems for blank results-day emails

£15m for schools to open nurseries from next year

In her main party conference speech, the education secretary says new school-based nurseries will improve 'life chances for children'

Curriculum review launches call for evidence

Professor Becky Francis warns that the current system is failing a third of pupils and says the review will focus on disadvantaged students

Schools with lower Ofsted ratings hit harder by falling rolls

The problem of falling pupil rolls is not being felt equally across the primary school sector, according to new NFER analysis

Guidance on school breakfasts ‘grossly out of date’, says minister

Minister Stephen Morgan's comments come after Labour set out plans to pilot breakfast clubs in primary schools

Directed hours rule ‘archaic’, says MAT leader

Becks Boomer-Clark, CEO of Lift Schools, said the teaching profession must ‘have a much more mature, sophisticated and flexible understanding of time’

Schools ‘losing’ KS3 students because of teaching quality

Lord Knight has warned that the 'quality of experience is not engaging enough' for some pupils at key stage 3

What subject experts want from Labour’s curriculum review

With the DfE's curriculum and exam review set to call for evidence, 91¶¶Òõ looks at the changes subject experts want to see

Days left to complete ‘crucial’ languages survey for Scottish schools

Responses will give overview of modern languages teaching in Scotland amid deep concerns over their place in school timetables

New education body for parents and carers seeks recruits

The Scottish Assembly of Parents and Carers starts its search for members today, months after funding was cut from another national parent body

Drop in science practicals ‘detriment to us all’, experts warn

Scientists Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Professor Brian Cox partner with the Royal Society to help teachers run practical experiments

Call to investigate impact of existing mental health support on pupils

NEU says schools 'do not have the resources or staff to continue carrying the weight of a broken system'

Phillipson defends panel chosen for curriculum review

Speaking at the Labour Party Conference, the education secretary says making the panel bigger would risk it becoming 'over-wieldy'

Call for Swinney to intervene over council education cuts

EIS writes to first minister amid dismay over 'hugely damaging' plans in Glasgow and Falkirk to cut teaching jobs and learning hours

We need more teachers with SEND, says schools minister

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Catherine McKinnell said the government is looking at how to make teaching more inclusive

Higher history marking review must be ‘thorough and transparent’

The way the Higher history exam was marked this year is to be scrutinised after the pass rate dropped by over 10 percentage points