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​​​​​​​Attendance, implementation of the new curriculum, teacher recruitment and progress in literacy and numeracy all causing concern in Welsh chief inspector’s annual report

It is hoped the new brand of qualification – which will be called VCSEs and will replace existing vocational qualifications such as Btecs – will improve parity of esteem

Professor John McKendrick’s first annual report also says progress widening access to university in Scotland has ‘stalled’ despite a record number of students from deprived backgrounds securing places in 2021-22

Newly qualified teachers are not the finished article – it would be ‘mindboggling’ if they were, says the new chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education

The fallout from Scotland’s Pisa results in December was well documented, but the picture is more nuanced when you pick your way past political and ideological attacks, finds Emma Seith

Scotland’s network of Regional Improvement Collaboratives is to have its funding cut, but a forthcoming OECD report is expected to recommend developing them further