General
Friday
16th Dec 2022
A toast to surviving the year of five education secretaries
Geoff Barton tells the tale of 2022 and explains why everyone in education should find time to unwind after another bruising 12 months
Scottish Budget: ‘Little for education or teachers’
General secretary of the EIS, Scotland’s biggest teaching union, outlines her disappointment with a Budget where education did not feature prominently
Investigation: What’s behind Scotland’s ‘behaviour emergency’?
School leaders in Scotland say the pandemic has led to behaviour problems like never before – but views about how to respond differ, finds Emma Seith
Friday
9th Dec 2022
‘Children with SEND are vulnerable - and the most exposed’
The pressures on the special educational needs and disabilities system have forced this MAT to adapt
Why the Schools Bill’s demise will have far-reaching consequences
While no one will lament the end of the Schools Bill, its failure will have a major impact on the sector and the political landscape – especially if Labour comes to power after the next election, as Sam Freedman explains
Nick Gibb: ‘We had to blow up the concrete’
In an exclusive and rare sit-down interview, schools minister Nick Gibb tells Jon Severs why he is at war with progressivism and how that position shaped the education policy of the past 12 years
Exclusive
Thursday
1st Dec 2022
The Tes quiz: COP, currency and catchy tunes
Pit your wits against Tes’ weekly general knowledge quiz
The SEND system is broken - and the new DfE funding won’t fix it
A funding boost to train more educational psychologists to help support children with SEND is welcome news – but the depth of support required means more must be done, and quickly, argues this trust CEO