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Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be 'faced down'

Smartphones in classrooms cause 'severe loss in focus' among pupils and fuel 'hostility' towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament

A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years

School leaders' network Schools North East's manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools

Proportion of senior leaders predicting cuts to TA spending has risen sharply since last year amid budget struggles, survey finds

LocatED director previously claimed that schools were sitting on surplus land 'the size of central London'

Local authorities say they 'recognise the vital role of teachers' but that 'progress cannot be made by focusing on teachers alone'

The Association of School and College Leaders has called for the creation of a new statutory set of standards to underpin school accountability reforms proposed by Labour

This week’s essential education news includes high rejection rates for ITT applications for subjects with staff shortages, and the scale of the teacher retention crisis

91¶¶Òõ analysis sparks warning that a rise in overseas applications for teacher training will not tackle 'chronic' teacher shortages

Institute of Physics urges exam board AQA to take action amid reports that students were left in tears by A-level paper

The education bill promises to 'better support pupils and teachers', so MSPs are particularly keen to hear their opinions

Schools are facing social difficulties caused by the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis that have left them like 'islands in a raging, flooded river', says expert

More than half of headteachers would consider phased retirement, partly to avoid burnout, but a third don't think it will be possible, according to research

Additional staff to support pupils would help combat disengagement, say teachers responding to Pearson survey

MSPs question why the Scottish government’s approach to replacing the Erasmus student exchange scheme is ‘so much slower than their counterparts in Wales’

Publication of long-awaited Hayward review response – as well as behaviour action plan and mobile phone guidance – put on hold, as education secretary cites pre-election rules

Seven subject associations call on the party that forms the next government to 'strengthen' recruitment and support for expert specialist teachers

Scottish councils could offer to protect the time children spend in class in exchange for relaxing the rules on teacher numbers – but is the government interested in compromise?

The free breakfast clubs pledge is part of a set of measures that could present additional challenges for schools, according to the IFS

Unions blame ‘delay and prevarication’ of councils and government – and say the new settlement date of 1 August will not be met

The National Governance Association analysed hundreds of DfE-commissioned reviews: these are the main findings

School finance leaders and trust governors call for the main political parties to set out how they would tackle the 'most significant' issue that schools are facing

Sir Kevan was the government's education recovery commissioner until quitting over a lack of funding for his catch-up package