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Qatar has told schools to get ready to reopen next week, while two major groups in the UAE have asked permission to do likewise, but caution remains amid ongoing uncertainty

The popular assumption that watching TV with subtitles will help children to become better readers doesn’t hold true, write two reading researchers

Schools should not be ‘call centres’, warns teaching union as research reveals that nearly half of SLT staff spend more than 30 minutes a week calling parents

Undirected play with small materials can support a wide range of learning outcomes, but practitioners need time and support to use the approach well, writes Lucy Fox

From better understanding mark schemes to seeing more ways that students approach questions, this is why exam marking can be a huge career boost

Financial pressures are already forcing teacher training providers to close subjects and move training online, NASBTT research warns

Secondary schools with the best exam results have fewer students receiving both free school meals and SEN support than live in their catchment areas, report warns

Children’s commissioner is among those calling on ministers to restore absence to pre-Covid levels

Assessing oracy through AI would put ‘no increased burden’ on teachers, says the head of the Chartered College of Teaching

The government’s launch of Mission North East is a ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’, say this MAT chief executive, who outlines some key ways to ensure that the promise of the policy is fulfilled

International schools serve diverse pupil cohorts, but too often leaders are drawn from the same stock – and this needs to change, argues Kausor Amin-Ali

Heads in deprived areas warn that grades awarded by Ofsted for its new achievement category are ‘demoralising’ and fail to take their challenging circumstances into account