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Union demands reversal of teacher job cuts by end of the year as it points to extra funding for local authorities in this month’s Scottish Budget

Mary Bousted and Anne Longfield become Labour peers, while free speech campaigner and free-school founder Toby Young is made a peer by the Conservatives

The planned legislation is set to result in significant changes to academy powers. Jasmine Norden and Ellen Peirson-Hagger outline which freedoms academies will lose and retain

Prime minister is warned that councils’ SEND spending deficits could result in ‘an avalanche’ of local authorities declaring effective bankruptcy

Primary school is taking legal advice in an attempt to stop the DfE pushing ahead with its forced academisation under a policy that the government is dropping in the new year

ASCL chief Pepe Di’lasio reflects on 12 months in education that have brought some seismic changes in the system but can only be viewed as the start of a long journey

Expert observers assessing the same lesson can produce different ratings on teacher quality, new research warns

To improve attendance, schools need to understand how it interacts with mental health and SEND and build systems of support accordingly, argues Professor Tamsin Ford

Teachers are ‘powerless’ to tackle the rise in disruptive behaviour in schools – they need to be given greater authority, says Tony Blair’s think tank

Watchdog to visit volunteer schools to trial its new inspection approach before launching a formal consultation on its plans for new report cards

The so-called ‘Es and Os’ used by teachers in Scotland to plan lessons are on their way out amid fears they have contributed to the ‘downgrading of knowledge’. So what will replace them?

Call made for curriculum review to give more prominence to music, art, sports, drama and vocational subjects