Attendance

The education minister is ‘concerned’ by reports of poor behaviour in the classroom, he tells Tes

The new director of the New Schools Network outlines why she hopes the government reverses course on the efforts to curtail academy freedoms

EPI research suggests that higher absence among disadvantaged 16-year-old students accounts for entire post-Covid increase in the gap

ImpactEd’s Owen Carter explains how new research will help form a deeper understanding of the attendance challenge to help schools tackle this ‘sticky’ issue

The education secretary will also use her speech at ASCL’s annual conference to say she believes some schools are not doing enough to tackle attendance issues

Rob Tarn says schools struggling with attendance can make a difference with pupils who ‘could come to school all the time’

Attendance rates for Scottish schools are among the worst in the UK – here we reveal the proportion of pupils regularly absent from school by council and sector

Attendance was a growing concern before the pandemic, so let’s not resort to simple answers to explain what’s going on now, says Ellie Costello from Square Peg

Generating a feeling of belonging in schools has been repeatedly cited as the key to solving multiple challenges, but is that claim supported by evidence? David Robson investigates

Scotland has some of the worst persistent absence rates in the UK, with Glasgow revealing that 738,625 days were lost to absence in 2022-23 across its primaries

The head of a secondary school in Cornwall outlines the steps it has taken to greatly reduce persistent absence in rapid time

There is growing pressure to release the constraints on student autonomy in the school day, so school and trust leaders need to have a clear position on the evidence, argues Jon Severs