Saturday
Phillipson: More ‘transparency’ needed in regional ‘layer’
The shadow education secretary was speaking at the ASCL conference in Liverpool this morning
Barton: Government must make classrooms ‘fit for learning’
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
Friday
Keegan would have ‘punched’ rude Ofsted inspectors
Schools and inspectors should show ‘professionalism, courtesy, empathy and respect’, says Ofsted chief in response to education secretary’s comments
More than 550 probationers opt out of induction scheme
EIS union says workload pressures, under-resourcing of ASN and rising violence are prompting new teachers to ‘pursue other opportunities’
Leaders ‘queasy’ about relying on international recruitment
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
‘Witches’ and helping pupils with a dark chapter in Scottish history
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
Sir Kevan Collins: ‘We did nothing. We gave up. It was pathetic’
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
Ofsted launches Big Listen on future of inspection
Watchdog could withhold ‘inadequate’ inspection judgement on schools that are only failing on safeguarding
Politicians ‘constantly running down schools’ undermines attendance drive
Some politicians and commentators are ‘far too quick to take potshots at schools’, ASCL’s president John Camp will warn today
Pepe Di’Iasio on funding, pay and ‘streamlining’ the middle tier
The incoming ASCL general secretary outlines his priorities for his tenure as the country enters a general election year and tells Tes what he thinks the next government should focus on
Thursday
Weekly round-up: Parent complaints ‘like the Wild West’
This week’s essential education news includes a Tes investigation revealing the ‘unmanageable’ rise in parent complaints, and sector leaders’ frustration over the Spring Budget
Teacher absence in Scotland hits highest level in over a decade
Last year, Scottish teachers took more than 380,000 sick days, with stress identified as the number one factor driving the rise
