Equality & Diversity

Review warns of the risk of an ‘unhealthy culture’ at the teaching union but finds no evidence of systemic sexual harassment, bullying or discrimination

Research shows that merely adding new books to set text lists doesn’t lead to true diversity in GCSE English. To really make a change, we need to start removing the old faithfuls, writes End Sexism in Schools’ English lead

With new research revealing the difficulties of being both a teacher and a parent, the NASUWT union calls for further increase in fully paid maternity leave

Nearly one in 10 teachers have experienced sexualised comments from students, according to an NEU survey on the influence of social media in schools

International schools serve diverse pupil cohorts, but too often leaders are drawn from the same stock – and this needs to change, argues Kausor Amin-Ali

Teaching should use Neurodiversity Celebration Week to consider how other professions support staff to enhance its own processes, says Chris Benson

A now-defunct government programme for ‘gifted and talented’ students could have ‘inadvertently reinforced educational inequalities’, say researchers – but they still want to see the idea revived

Sexism and misogyny are also now ‘in plain sight’, says ASCL general secretary after research highlights school leaders’ concerns

Teachers tell the watchdog that working with different local authorities with different processes can be frustrating when trying to support vulnerable pupils

Is the dominance of white men in international school leadership waning? Tes gathers data from more than a dozen organisations to investigate the gender gap – and looks at why, despite positive signs, there is still more work to do

Treasury has committed to ensuring that every primary school has a library by 2029, but these facilities could include former ‘storage spaces’, Tes can reveal

Sir David Bell has been appointed to lead an independent review into how schools and colleges in England identify, respond to and prevent antisemitism