DfE

As headship aspiration reaches a record low, Tes explores what’s deterring people from taking the top job

Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted inspects them, with sector leaders warning this is a ‘recipe for heightening stress’

Heads vote for union to consider all steps up to and including industrial action over any below-inflation three-year pay deal

High-stakes accountability ‘just doesn’t work’, says Sinéad Mc Brearty, who chairs the NAHT advisory panel on the Ofsted framework

The rising costs that schools are facing could undermine the government’s White Paper plans, the NAHT’s general secretary tells the union’s annual conference

Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. Here, education leaders tell Tes what they think is behind the contrasting trends

Dave Woods will also tell the union’s annual conference that education staff are now ‘frontline fighters’ against ‘dark forces of hate’

Only 3 per cent of school leaders were even aware of the government’s programme to increase flexible working after its first year, says DfE report

Commons Education Select Committee chair Helen Hayes raises concerns over government SEND reforms

The number of permanent exclusions in the spring term is the highest ever, DfE data shows, and growing proportions of SEND and disadvantaged students are being suspended

In response to a rise in antisemitic incidents in schools, an independent review led by Sir David Bell has issued a call for evidence

Government under pressure to go further with its restrictions on phones in schools – but unions warn of the cost of solutions such as introducing lockable pouches for devices