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An AI curriculum framework for Scotland claims to be the world’s first to put children’s rights at its heart. As tools for navigating AI in education are launched today, Dr Jasmeen Kanwal sets out the key principles

Governors can be ‘a powerful force for good in a school’ – but setting up an effective board isn’t easy, according to a panel of experienced chairs and governors who share their practical advice

There are significant gender gaps in school leadership across the world – and new Unesco research highlights the positive impact of female headteachers, writes Manos Antoninis

These are the areas that school leaders often overlook when thinking about health and safety, according to a school-based accident expert

A new framework will help teachers at the start of their career in Scotland to respond to urgent environmental and sustainability challenges

From pupil absence to teacher retention issues, we tolerate widespread, low-level failure. The system must act before dysfunction becomes unignorable, says this headteacher

At the Schools and Academies Show senior leaders discussed numerous ways to better manage the sprawling estates that trusts and schools manage. Here are some of the key insights they had to share

Across the Atlantic better integration and stronger collaboration provide a fairer system for all, writes one MP who is part of a Commons committee investigating the SEND support crisis

Six months ago the government proposed a 2.8 per cent pay increase for 2025-26, but the size of the uplift is still yet to be decided – leaving schools with a budgeting headache yet again. Ellen Peirson-Hagger analyses data from the past decade to see what we should expect this year

The vast majority of Scottish schools receive cash from the Pupil Equity Fund – and a new report highlights how 129 schools are using the money ‘impactfully’ and ‘innovatively’

We don’t have to wait for structural reform or the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, because joined-up relationships are shaped locally, says this MAT chief executive

The argument that ‘everyone speaks English anyway’ falls apart when subjected to scrutiny, says Catriona Egerton