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Conferences can highlight the gaps between research and practice, says Christian Bokhove, but they also have the power to unite the education community

Fully funded National Professional Qualifications will remain for Sendcos, primary maths, headship and staff in high-disadvantage areas only

School leaders warn that teacher workload and many others issues have still to be resolved, but hope that higher pay will boost recruitment to the profession

ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU say STRB pay recommendations must address ‘reality of pay cuts, sky-high workload and the recruitment and retention crisis’

National Governance Association warns the end of recruitment funding in October will leave boards ‘entirely to their own devices’

A new study has found that teachers also want pupils to be taught the ‘ethical implications’ of using artificial intelligence

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