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Put software systems to work for you on crunching data and spotting patterns, recommends Amy Forrester

An assistant head advises teachers to eschew artificial intelligence when creating their personal statements

Most school staff believe safeguarding concerns have increased since last year, a Tes poll shows

Oracy needs to be more integrated into the curriculum, says OCR

A new initiative from the Confederation of School Trusts and ImpactEd is looking to distil what makes for successful trust-led school improvement. Steve Rollett explains all

The government is cutting funding for the National Parent Forum of Scotland, despite a recent review highlighting the ‘critical role’ of the forum

‘Digital distractions’ a major reason why a third of pupils in each class need extra support with reading, according to a teacher survey

Teachers need more support if attempts to raise the status of Gaelic and Scots language in schools are to succeed, says Ingeborg Birnie

Ofsted review also finds less than half of teachers and leaders are happy with their development training

There are ‘only a few encouraging conclusions for Scottish education policy’ to mitigate declining Pisa scores in maths, science and reading, says Lindsay Paterson

This week’s essential education news includes Ofsted scrapping its curriculum unit project and news that managed moves have ‘more than doubled’

It is too easy for the needed changes to the school curriculum in New South Wales to deteriorate into a social media slanging match – we need understanding from both sides