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Tories call for school inspection ‘to restart urgently’ – but how much is enough and what’s the point anyway, asks Emma Seith

All teachers can help children build crucial oracy skills

Before the pandemic, reducing teacher workload was high on the agenda. Now, we must prioritise it once again, says Yvonne Williams

The SAC Inquiry opened today, amid warnings that it must not miss the bigger picture

Teaching children about money can seem an enormous task so it is important to start young, says Gillian Darroch

Despite positive advances in the diversity of initial teacher training, Dan Worth and Helen Lock find that unless more efforts are made to retain these teachers at the start of their careers and offer routes to leadership, it will be a wasted opportunity

Good behaviour should be constantly exemplified in a school, says Raymond Soltysek

Pledge to reduce Scottish teachers’ class-contact time is popular but doubts remain over implementation

Professor Sugata Mitra talks to Tes about his bold claim, at the World Education Summit, that we should give students access to the internet in exams and explains in more detail how it could work

Primary head Jenny Watson explains how outdoor expeditions have been a crucial part of her school’s response to Covid

A thriving school library has myriad benefits for staff and students, says Elizabeth Hutchinson

In a new YouGov poll, educators report a rise in the number of transgender and non-binary students – and say they need more direction from the government on how to support them