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The latest news, analysis and thought leadership for UK schools
Wednesday
4th Feb 2026
Lords vote to curb new powers over academy admissions
Peers back an amendment to the government’s schools bill, despite Labour warnings that the change would leave schools victim to ‘ridiculous market forces’
School phone ban backed by Lords in government defeat
The House of Lords votes in favour of a statutory ban on phones in schools, despite the government strengthening its guidance on this issue last month
DfE ‘particularly keen’ to recruit male teachers
Education minister Olivia Bailey tells MPs that the department wants to see more men ‘teaching, guiding and leading’ in schools
Do schools need to change course on behaviour?
‘Bad’ behaviour is damaging teacher wellbeing and disrupting learning, despite successive governments trying to tackle it. Could findings from behavioural psychology and child development hold the answer? David Robson takes a look
Internal suspensions guidance boosts headteacher autonomy
Amid claims that government guidance is watering down school leaders’ powers, head Sophia Haughton says the opposite is actually the case
Digital literacy is no longer enough - our pupils need digital maturity
The rise of AI means that children today don’t just need to know how to use technology – they need to know when to use it, says this senior international leader
Tuesday
3rd Feb 2026
Reading for pleasure needs a ‘higher profile’ at school, MPs told
Education experts giving evidence to an MPs’ inquiry into the decline in children reading for pleasure make four recommendations to address the problem
We must take British educational excellence to the world
The UK’s international education champion writes for Tes about the importance of schools throwing their weight behind the government’s new International Education Strategy
Monday
2nd Feb 2026
How can schools measure ‘belonging’?
There’s a growing focus on increasing pupils’ sense of ‘belonging’ in schools, but to succeed we need to find ways to ‘operationalise’ the concept, writes Jean Gross
Fears over head and Sendco workload in new Ofsted inspections
Some senior leaders who have experienced the new report-card inspections have described them as ‘brutal’, ASCL tells schools’ conference
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Minister does not commit to transport for school breakfast clubs
In response to fears about pupils being denied access to free school breakfast clubs, early education minister Olivia Bailey would not be drawn on the likelihood of a policy change