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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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Biggest rise in EHCPs since pandemic
New data shows an increase in the number of education, health and care plans and requests for assessments at a time when funding is being squeezed
Funding crisis ‘will increase class sizes’ in most schools
One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after 'paring everything back to the bone'
Most bullying in secondary ‘linked to sexuality or gender’
School leaders believe their staff need 'increased confidence' in handling bullying incidents, according to a DfE-funded report
Key policy of rooting music tuition in education at risk, warns union
Council urged to abandon plans to put its instrumental music service in an arm’s-length body, amid fears the plans could have Scotland-wide ramifications
Revealed: The most popular education policies for voters
Analysis shows strong support for hiring more teachers and increasing apprenticeships but a negative response to dropping single-word Ofsted judgements
Glasgow teachers to take industrial action over job cuts
EIS members in Glasgow vote heavily in favour of taking in favour of action that could result in strikes
Conservatives’ education policies: all you need to know
The Conservative Party pledges to make guidance on banning mobile phones statutory and to protect 'day-to-day' per pupil spending on schools
Real-terms cuts to schools in Wales laid bare by new data
Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts
Liberal Democrats’ education policies: all you need to know
Lib Dems pledge to make teacher pay fully funded and independent, and to cut the amount schools pay towards education, health and care plans
Schools under ‘severe strain’, ASCL warns party leaders
Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children's needs is a situation 'close to madness', says the union
Labour: Breakfast clubs plan ‘could cut half a million days of absence’
Labour sets out plan to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries
School counselling ‘would deliver £1.9bn boost to country’
Analysis suggests school-based counselling would provide an eight-fold financial benefit to the government
Most special schools have ‘less funding than in 2010’
Special schools have suffered a £419 million real-terms cut in spending power over 14 years, unions warn
EIS: School violence reduction ‘wishful thinking’ without extra money
Using class-contact reduction for ‘collegiate time’ is another ‘absolute red line’, says union chief Andrea Bradley, who also calls on Scottish government to ‘come clean’ on teacher numbers
Weekly round-up: Teacher pay and school complaints
This week’s essential education news includes a 91¶¶Òõ investigation into the number of academies paying teachers above the national rate and a warning about schools facing rising complaints
Ofsted warned over inspection target impact on wellbeing
Inspectors are feeling 'pressured' by Ofsted's target to inspect all schools by next summer, says union
Investigation: How trusts use teacher pay freedoms
Which academies deviate from the national teacher pay scale, and is this affecting other schools' ability to recruit?
Which MATs pay teachers above the national rate?
Does your school pay teachers more than the nationally set scale? Check our interactive map to find out
Government criticised for ‘silence’ over Glasgow teacher job cuts
Glasgow teachers are warning that if job cuts go ahead in the city other councils will follow suit
Sharp rise in pupils in alternative provision amid crisis warnings
Government data shows a rise in the number of pupils at both state-funded and non-state-funded alternative provision settings in 2023-24
Teacher vacancies leap by 20% in a year
Heads' leaders say the new figures are 'stark evidence of the recruitment and retention crisis'
EIS president blasts lack of action on education reform
After 'consultation upon consultation' the Scottish government has still not given a timeline on major reforms, Paula McEwan tells union's annual gathering
Energy spend per pupil highest in North East schools
School spending per pupil on learning resources and catering grew significantly in England over the past couple of years as schools face cost rises, finds analysis
Next government ‘faces persistent education inequalities’
Incoming ministers will need to address the long shadow of problems facing schools caused by the pandemic and cost-of-living crisis, IFS warns