Staff wellbeing

To address the challenge of recruitment and retention in international schools, leaders are now adopting a policy of ‘honest’ discussions with candidates even before the interview, finds Emma Seith

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’

Schools with an above-average number of pupils with SEND are more likely to be marked down by watchdog for attendance and behaviour, analysis finds

Emma Kell explains how research for her book on teachers’ lives shone a light on some of the deeper reasons why staff lose faith in the sector

Do we really need this extra layer of day-to-day school management in the trust system, asks one leader who warns that it can starve headteachers of the ‘oxygen of autonomy’

A quarter of teachers self-identify as neurodivergent, according to new Teacher Tapp research that raises questions about what the sector can do to support these staff, writes Chris Benson

A trust leader reveals the steps it took to boost staff commitment to its schools, including better options for internal promotions and flexible working

Global survey of teachers conducted by Tes reveals that many are overwhelmed by their workload and lack options for flexible working

NASUWT members reveal ordeal faced in classroom amid concerns about the influence of the ‘manosphere’

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

Delegates at the teaching union’s annual conference back motion calling for a national campaign to reduce violence in schools