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Can Labour put all schools into trusts?

The government’s schools White Paper sets out a goal for full academisation - but Tes analysis suggests that it would take decades to turn this into reality

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Politics focus leads to ‘significant’ confidence boost for girls

University of Roehampton's pilot classroom programme aims to improve political knowledge and self-belief among working-class girls

Teachers seek 13% more pay to work in the most disadvantaged schools

Increasing salaries is the most effective way to improve teacher recruitment, according to EEF research looking at what schools can offer to attract staff

Nearly half a million pupils entitled to free school transport

Almost one in 10 children with SEND who receive funded home-to-school transport travel alone by taxi, new DfE data shows

Phillipson commits to remove RAAC from schools by 2029

Government announces new timeline for removing collapse-prone concrete from schools as MPs scrutinise its progress

Minister rejects call to allow term-time holidays

Schools minister Georgia Gould says the government will not allow pupils to miss 10 days of school without good reason

Sendcos back statutory mainstream support plan

Teacher Tapp data shows a higher level of support among Sendcos than other teachers for plans to create a new layer of learning support in mainstream schools

DfE misses key teacher pay review deadline

Teacher pay review process 'undermined' by the government's late submission of evidence, warn unions

Schools ‘disincentivised’ from helping poorest children

Former DfE permanent secretary calls for major reform, warning that the school system currently fails the pupils most in need of help

Secondary teacher vacancies lowest in five years

The number of job adverts in the first month of the 2025-26 academic year was lower than during Covid, indicating 'serious financial pressures' for schools

8 in 10 teachers rethinking how they set assignments due to AI

The British Council survey of school teachers also reveals that they are worried about how AI is changing the way students communicate

Laura Trott: Heads have to ‘fight’ for exclusions

Shadow education secretary talks to Tes about the 'pushback' facing heads on exclusions, how schools are 'lagging' on phone bans and why RISE plans are 'reckless'

Would a shorter summer holiday help teacher ‘fatigue’?

A new paper proposes reducing the Scottish school summer holiday by a week to guarantee a fortnight off in October and a week-long break in February

NEU and ASCL join legal action against Ofsted

The two unions will provide witness statements to support the NAHT's bid for a judicial review over Ofsted's new inspections

Trust leaders back 80-hour ‘enrichment guarantee’

The benchmark is one of several adopted by the government as a 'starting point' for its new enrichment framework for schools, leader tells Tes

Severe student absence increases

The latest DfE figures show that overall pupil absence has improved, but a higher proportion of children are missing more than half of their classes