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Additional staff to support pupils would help combat disengagement, say teachers responding to Pearson survey

MSPs question why the Scottish government’s approach to replacing the Erasmus student exchange scheme is ‘so much slower than their counterparts in Wales’

There is ‘growing frustration at all levels’ with Northern Ireland’s special educational needs system – and solutions must be based on a ‘highly inclusive’ approach, says Noel Purdy

For too long the difficulties for small, rural schools have been ignored – the next government needs to save these vital ‘community anchors’, says one MAT leader

A narrative persists that young people have lost their focus thanks to an onslaught of social media – David Robson investigates and looks at what schools can do

Publication of long-awaited Hayward review response – as well as behaviour action plan and mobile phone guidance – put on hold, as education secretary cites pre-election rules

Scottish councils could offer to protect the time children spend in class in exchange for relaxing the rules on teacher numbers – but is the government interested in compromise?

Unions blame ‘delay and prevarication’ of councils and government – and say the new settlement date of 1 August will not be met

The National Governance Association analysed hundreds of DfE-commissioned reviews: these are the main findings

School finance leaders and trust governors call for the main political parties to set out how they would tackle the ‘most significant’ issue that schools are facing

Sir Kevan was the government’s education recovery commissioner until quitting over a lack of funding for his catch-up package

Certain texts have garnered a sacred reputation in the education world but blindly following them is a mistake, argues Christian Bokhove