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Long-held assumptions about how to regulate Scottish education will be ‘a hard nut to crack’, warn experts

A male teacher is to appear on Love Island – but can you imagine the outcry if a female teacher appeared on TV in a bikini, asks Lauran Hampshire-Dell

A scheme to provide struggling families with financial advice via schools is proving highly successful in helping parents to navigate the benefits system, manage their debts and ensure their children have the food, clothing and equipment they need to be able to focus on their studies. Emma Seith reports

The phrase ‘white privilege’ is blamed for working-class boys’ failure – but this doesn’t add up, says Tabitha McIntosh

The experiences of pupils with special educational needs and disability are consistently overlooked – there’s no greater disadvantage than being ignored, says Christopher Rossiter

The government repeats the same old lines about ‘levelling up’ – while cutting funding for the poorest children, says Geoff Barton

The delay in lifting Covid restrictions has put a stop to many planned transition activities. So what can schools do?

If we want to tackle sexual harassment in schools, we can’t tolerate the sending of naked pictures, says Sarah Ledger

With 100,000 pupils becoming eligible for FSM in the autumn term, pupil premium policy change could cost schools £124m

No one can deny the impact of Everyone’s Invited – but shame isn’t a good driver for constructive change, says Anki Deo

Sexual harassment is a feature of every school and every college – but we can’t fix the problem alone, says Geoff Barton

Those actually engaged in the business of educating young people should be central in the debate about what is – and what is not – working in our schools, writes Emma Seith