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CST CEO Leora Cruddas outlines why education secretary Bridget Phillipson is right to praise the past – but also to seek to create an even better future

More than 70 per cent of secondaries are likely to have to make uniform changes, and QTS requirements could affect at least 700 new teachers, the DfE estimates

Instead of tackling the big issues in education, the DfE is mired in dull managerialism with its schools bill. We need a vision for change, says ASCL chief Pepe Di’Iasio

The country’s biggest study of pupil engagement reveals a gender gap in students feeling anxious about school, writes ImpactEd Group’s research director

The decline in the pupil population that is affecting schools now is a trend that’s unlikely to change for decades, new ONS data shows

Leaders from Chiltern Learning Trust explain how they are developing new government-backed artificial intelligence training courses for teachers, to help upskill the sector

Progress 8 needs to be succeeded by a more nuanced measure reminiscent of the Families of Schools data from the London Challenge, says headteacher Andrew O’Neill

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will ensure no child is left behind and help England’s ‘excellent’ teachers drive ‘high and rising’ standards, writes the minister for school standards

The executive director of education for the Church of England explains why it has launched two courses aimed at helping teachers and leaders to flourish

Jon Andrews, of the Education Policy Institute, explains why a new tool that brings together a raft of performance measures should show the way to a more nuanced school inspection system

A new school validation process on the Isle of Man uses self-evaluation. Might it be a basis for the MAT inspections Ofsted has pledged to introduce in England?

Parental choice is critical to a successful education system, so we must ditch ideological wars and celebrate rather than criticise school types different to our own, argue Luke Sparkes and Jenny Thompson