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Our education system only really works for some children, writes professor of psychology Umar Toseeb, and the government’s plans for special educational needs reform won’t change that

Distributed leadership works by making success everyone’s collective responsibility, says Antony Luby

Schools are increasingly being forced to make ‘trade-offs’ on staffing, class sizes and levels of support because of squeezed funding, report warns

Less than half of governors think their school’s resources, including reserves, should be shared across their trust, finds National Governance Association

Education in Wales is facing a host of challenges and it cannot afford many more wrong turns, says policy expert Gareth Evans

A third of senior leaders think the new-style inspections are ‘much more stressful’ than previous inspections, Teacher Tapp polling shows

As headship aspiration reaches a record low, Tes explores what’s deterring people from taking the top job

Ms Heller joined in 2004 as the founding director of the academy trust and was appointed chief executive 14 years ago

Schools will have less than a term to prepare the new enrichment entitlements before Ofsted inspects them, with sector leaders warning this is a ‘recipe for heightening stress’

With greater policy focus on both oracy and inclusion, speech, language and communication needs are under the spotlight, says Megan Dixon, and a free database can offer schools support

Heads vote for union to consider all steps up to and including industrial action over any below-inflation three-year pay deal

High-stakes accountability ‘just doesn’t work’, says Sinéad Mc Brearty, who chairs the NAHT advisory panel on the Ofsted framework