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Cerys Turner
Cerys Turner

Cerys Turner is a senior reporter at Tes magazine. She covers education unions, teacher training, Ofsted and artificial intelligence in the classroom.

Her recent stories include breaking the news on the 2026 teacher pay award, revealing upcoming strike ballots from the country’s largest education union and investigating why teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay. Before joining Tes, she wrote for the Sunday Times, Metro and the Big Issue.

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School leaders affected by another DfE data leak
Department for Education insists it took ‘swift action’ after a major incident involving sensitive data, with school leaders among those affected
General
29 July 2026
ai hacker
Revealed: No air conditioning in a third of schools
The exclusive findings come after record-high temperatures were recorded before schools broke up for the summer holidays
General
29 July 2026
Air con units
New technical routes for schools: what we do and don’t know
A huge announcement on secondary education was made by Andy Burnham last night, begging a raft of questions. We set out the answers the sector needs and the detail – where it exists – we know already
General
28 July 2026
New technical routes for schools: what we do and don't know
Ethnicity excluded from new similar-schools measure amid legal fears
A new DfE ‘similar schools’ measure, launching this September, is aimed at helping the government and Ofsted to understand how well pupils in one school are achieving compared with those in schools in a similar context
General
27 July 2026
Diversity graphic illustration
Key teacher training funding now conditional on SEND content
The intensive training and practice grant will only be given to training providers that tailor their content to supporting pupils with SEND and adaptive teaching
General
23 July 2026
New guidance sets out SEND requirements for ITT providers.
Who are the new DfE ministers?
The DfE team has been reshuffled, with Lucy Powell now taking the helm as education secretary. But who will she be working with?
General
22 July 2026
Powell’s DfE team: the ministers confirmed so far