Exclusive: Education secretary sends Ofsted back to ‘drawing board’ as teachers raise ‘serious concerns’ about new systemSchool inspections in England will be overhauled for the second time in a year, after a barrage of...
Read MoreExclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skillsAI tools will soon be in use in classrooms across England, but the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has...
Read MoreDespite government pledge to recruit 6,500 new teachers, headteachers are under renewed pressure to avoid going into deficitSchools across England say they are being forced to make teachers and teaching assistants redundant to...
Read MoreBridget Phillipson insists move to marking and class preparation out of school would help stem retention crisis‘We need a total culture change’: the teacher told to work 60-hour week or leave after having babyAll state school...
Read MoreThree in four teachers put a pupil’s psychological needs before teaching at least once a week, UK survey revealsTeachers are picking up the pieces of the deepening crisis in children and young people’s mental health, with many...
Read MoreNASUWT annual conference backs plan for staff trained in mental health first aid in all schools and collegesAll school leaders should receive suicide prevention training to help tackle a “mental health emergency” among teachers,...
Read MoreNuffield Foundation to also recommend longer half-term breaks in proposed overhaul of calendar ‘in place since Victorian times’England should ditch its school calendar “stuck in place since Victorian times” and replace it with...
Read MoreFigures show government is well short of 26,360 target amid crisis in teacher recruitment and retentionOnly half of the required number of trainee secondary school teachers in England have been recruited as the academic year...
Read MoreMembers accepted 6.5% pay rise, but said it was not enough to correct decade of real-terms pay cutsSchool strikes in England have been called off after teachers and school leaders in four education unions voted to accept the...
Read MoreNASUWT members follow teachers in National Education Union in voting for 6.5% offer after lengthy period of industrial actionMembers of the UK’s largest teaching union have voted to accept the government’s 6.5% pay...
Read MoreNational Education Union votes in favour of 6.5% offer after wave of industrial action that forced closuresMembers of the UK’s largest teaching union have voted to accept the government’s 6.5% pay award, bringing to...
Read MoreUnion members are concerned about funding for the below-inflation increase and the lack of a long-term agreementConcerns over how the rise promised to teachers in England will be funded, and dismay at the lack of a long-term...
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