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Teaching should use Neurodiversity Celebration Week to consider how other professions support staff to enhance its own processes, says Chris Benson

Shake-up of Teacher Induction Scheme must include consigning the term ‘probationer’ to the past, says General Teaching Council for Scotland

Schools told of legal responsibility to dispose of vapes and lithium batteries safely in new government guidance that also addresses other substances and their use in schools

The New Schools Network’s Innovation Pilot Programme will invest in solutions to two of the most stubborn barriers in education, explains Meg Powell-Chandler

An increased focus on inclusion and cost means some schools are revising their uniform policies. But teachers are divided and leaders are less convinced of the need for change, exclusive polling reveals

Teachers will need at least a 7 per cent increase over three years to keep pace with other professions, says National Foundation for Educational Research

The government’s newly announced policies, from SEND training to maternity pay, can improve the experiences of early career teachers, writes one member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable

School staff are also concerned about a lack of parent support on reading, research shows, while heads warn reading for pleasure has been ‘squeezed out of the curriculum’

Many women leave teaching shortly after returning from maternity leave. Teacher Evelyn Waite asks what is pushing them out, and how new mums and their schools can sidestep the common pitfalls of coming back to work

A now-defunct government programme for ‘gifted and talented’ students could have ‘inadvertently reinforced educational inequalities’, say researchers – but they still want to see the idea revived

Sexism and misogyny are also now ‘in plain sight’, says ASCL general secretary after research highlights school leaders’ concerns

Inspectors recruited under the scheme will not get an inspection fee, with Ofsted instead contributing to their employers’ costs