Curriculum

This week’s essential education news includes teachers being hit particularly hard by a real-terms drop in pay and thousands of students’ ‘unexplained’ school moves

Dr Steffen Sommer, director-general of Misk Schools, chats to Tes about the school’s focus on developing future leaders – and why it’s work he wants to share with the world

Two academy trusts are among the partners named today by resources provider Oak National Academy as it extends into more of the national curriculum

There is an ‘absence of authoritative advice’ about sexual health for young people, warns Women and Equalities Committee

The Lomond School principal on the importance of humility in leaders, getting Scottish education out of limbo and why a school is no place for procrastination or preaching

Students at a Scottish secondary – and a teacher specialising in student voice – explain how they worked with a team of academics on how to improve their school community

Geoff Barton to take role after Labour said its Curriculum and Assessment Review will explore how to weave oracy into lessons throughout school

Scran Academy chief executive Will Bain explains the importance of supporting students make the transition from the classroom to training and work

Schools must teach the skills that underpin spoken language more explicitly, Ofsted says. But what does that look like in practice? Kirstin Mulholland takes a look

NAHT says creative subjects are being ‘squeezed out’ as senior politicians from both political parties call for a broader curriculum

‘Top-down’ education reforms have a poor track record and Scotland’s school staff should be entrusted with key decisions, advises expert analysis

Three years after his appointment as the ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins tells the full story of the four months he spent trying to get the government to take education recovery seriously