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Tes has analysed the published accounts of more than 50 of the country’s largest MATs to break down chief executive pay

Over three years the ‘education service reform’ would mean teacher numbers being cut in primaries and secondaries and a reduction in promoted posts

This week’s essential education news includes Tes analysis of what the biggest MATs paid their chief executives last year, and new government guidance recommending that schools ban phones

Two in five teachers have worked extra hours without payment in the past year, TUC study finds

The financial difficulties of MATs and councils should be a wake-up call that we need a new approach to SEND funding, says this trust finance officer, who suggests a solution

Delay comes after teaching unions the NEU and NASUWT said they would ballot members for industrial action over teacher pay again this year

Reflecting on decades of education research, psychologist Peter Blatchford says the hunt for ‘what works’ could be throwing us off track when it comes to improving teaching and learning

Headteachers’ leader voices concern about the capacity of social care and the police to help children if there is an increase in referrals

Gary Schlick, current deputy CEO of the 27-school multi-academy trust, will take up the top job in September

Curriculum for Wales is meant to give teachers freedom but staff have been left needing support to understand what the expectations are, says Gareth Evans

The children’s commissioner told Commons Education Select Committee MPs today that she would like to get a national picture of how schools restrict mobile use

An ASCL poll has found that 50 per cent of school business leaders are considering leaving their role in the next three years