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‘Top-down’ education reforms have a poor track record and Scotland’s school staff should be entrusted with key decisions, advises expert analysis

Peer feedback and assessment has the potential to improve learning and cut teacher workload, says Alex Quigley, so why isn’t it used more often in the classroom?

Ofsted has told MPs that calls for inspection reform need to be considered alongside the watchdog’s budget constraints

What schools can do to attract younger teachers amid a recruitment crisis, according to one expert

The shadow education secretary was speaking at the ASCL conference in Liverpool this morning

Geoff Barton uses last speech as ASCL leader to highlight the ‘shocking’ state of school buildings, along with the need for a curriculum review and better funding

Schools and inspectors should show ‘professionalism, courtesy, empathy and respect’, says Ofsted chief in response to education secretary’s comments

EIS union says workload pressures, under-resourcing of ASN and rising violence are prompting new teachers to ‘pursue other opportunities’

Recruiting teachers from other countries that need them, ‘morally’ doesn’t ‘feel like the right thing for us to be doing’, says ASCL general secretary

On International Women’s Day, teacher Gemma Clark looks at how schools can make sense of the period in which Scotland tried thousands of women for witchcraft

Three years after his appointment as the ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins tells the full story of the four months he spent trying to get the government to take education recovery seriously

Watchdog could withhold ‘inadequate’ inspection judgement on schools that are only failing on safeguarding