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The chair of Ofsted’s board warns the DfE about the consequences if the watchdog’s budget is squeezed any further

While the government has ‘an absolute responsibility around teacher recruitment...retention is possibly one for us’, says CST chief Leora Cruddas

Downward trend in school attendance data leads education secretary to demand that persistent pupil absence be addressed in every school inspection

Target was to fill 2,000 places on the secondary PGDE this year but just 1,002 were taken – with maths, physics, computing, technical education, languages, chemistry and music among worst hit

Official figures also indicate the number of these specialists is falling, although numbers of some other non-teaching roles are growing

All secondary school year groups had higher absence in the autumn term compared with a year earlier, FFT Education Datalab analysis shows

Coordinated support plans allow children and families to hold education authorities to account over support – but just 0.5% of pupils with an ASN in Scotland have one

The co-founder of #BeeWell shares findings from its third survey of pupil wellbeing trends that it hopes schools can use to tailor their responses to the challenges

Parents’ evenings can be draining, says English teacher Emma Newton, who shares advice on how to make sure your appointments run smoothly and are beneficial for all involved

Education Policy Institute and Renaissance report also reveals the ongoing regional divide in outcomes following pandemic

By helping pupils see poetry in the real world and appointing a school makar or poet laureate, schools can show that poetry is not stuffy, says English teacher Alan Gillespie

Schools should no longer have to be the ‘sticking plaster’ for child poverty, says former children’s commissioner report