Thursday
Weekly round-up: Teacher pay and staff shortages
This week’s essential education news includes unions demanding an above-inflation teacher pay rise and warnings about another shortfall in trainee teachers
Two-thirds of special schools full amid SEND crisis
There were around 4,000 more pupils on roll than there were places for 2022-23, DfE capacity data shows
Thursday
Badly run and designed schools create additional needs, hear MSPs
Over a third of Scottish pupils have an ASN, but that figure would be lower if school buildings and cultures were developed with all pupils in mind, says expert
Suspended students ‘a year behind at GCSE’
Report calls for schools to be given the resources they need to reduce suspensions
Monday
SEND: Hunt urged to increase funding for school places
In a letter seen by Tes, the education committee chair writes to the chancellor ahead of the Spring Budget setting out the need for more funding for pupils with SEND
‘Budget cuts could affect every one of Scotland’s children’
Amid plans to cuts education budgets in Scotland, headteachers are ‘profoundly’ worried for ‘an entire generation of children’, writes the AHDS vice-president
