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Modest growth at Higher level offers hope amid ongoing concerns about declining popularity of languages

Trusts face a ‘bleak outlook’ with their budgets despite a strong financial performance last year, Kreston report warns

Peers back an amendment to the government’s schools bill, despite Labour warnings that the change would leave schools victim to ‘ridiculous market forces’

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

Education minister Olivia Bailey tells MPs that the department wants to see more men ‘teaching, guiding and leading’ in schools

‘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

Amid claims that government guidance is watering down school leaders’ powers, head Sophia Haughton says the opposite is actually the case

Education experts giving evidence to an MPs’ inquiry into the decline in children reading for pleasure make four recommendations to address the problem

The Council of International Schools’ executive director talks exclusively to Tes about the need for international schools to diversify their leaders, staff and curricula – and the threat that ‘nationalistic measures’ pose

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

Some senior leaders who have experienced the new report-card inspections have described them as ‘brutal’, ASCL tells schools’ conference

Leaving a teaching role isn’t easy, but a good resignation letter can help to ensure a smooth departure. Here’s a guide to how to format one