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A schools group leader outlines how its settings give students the chance to engage with employers in a raft of industries to help shape their future career choices

From transport links to a lack of teaching staff, the challenge of creating new technical routes for students will be immense, says this governance chief in Dorset

When she became headteacher of a failing school in an area of high deprivation, Lottie Bloom faced a steep learning curve. Here she shares her insights into turning the school around

Settings will not get any extra money for providing more extracurricular activities as part of an enrichment ‘entitlement’, the DfE confirms

Another year of declining proportions of resit students achieving a grade 4 in maths and English has resulted in much discussion about whether young people are being set up to fail – and whether a grade 4 really is necessary for future work

Education improvement can only come if the systems and processes around staff allow them to grow, too, says Stephen Morales

Teachers show rapidly fading enthusiasm for AI, according to report based on survey of the profession in the UK

Charlie Lang, who has spent more than two decades at the Department for Education, will take up the role in November

Schools worked wonders to help this cohort of students overcome pandemic disruption, and this year’s results prove why battling barriers to success is worth the fight, says MAT CEO Becks Boomer-Clark

A research project is attempting to understand the difficulties children with conditions such as diabetes, asthma and epilepsy experience at school. Dr Simon Pini details its findings so far

Schools already have to follow healthier food standards from September, but ‘more draconian’ rules are needed, says Dame Prue Leith

With a new school year, it’s tempting to make changes – but they need to have a clear purpose to track and tweak, argues Professor Michael Green