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Professor John McKendrick’s first annual report also says progress widening access to university in Scotland has ‘stalled’ despite a record number of students from deprived backgrounds securing places in 2021-22

Combined framework will set out how teachers should be trained in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, oracy and mental health

The chair of the Teaching School Hubs Council says the latest refinements to the teacher development frameworks are another step in the right direction

New legislation introduces a duty for UK employers around the prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace, so what does it mean for the education sector in Scotland and beyond?  

Academies and maintained schools should be replaced by a single system run by school boards, says think tank

Cross-bench MPs’ committee is calling on the watchdog to ‘rebuild trust’ and ‘make major changes to school inspections’

Commons Education Select Committee chair Robin Walker explains why evidence from its hearings into Ofsted made it clear that inspections have to evolve

Newly qualified teachers are not the finished article – it would be ‘mindboggling’ if they were, says the new chair of the Scottish Council of Deans of Education

Tom Rees, chief executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, speaks to Tes about being sent out of class by his mother, the inequality gap and why it is vital to retain great teachers

Government plan to impose minimum service levels during teacher strikes will ‘add to the increasing unpopularity of teaching’, unions warn

Local education budgets have come under pressure for years, but the data suggests they have been relatively protected up to now

Inspectorate’s new director of education Lee Owston questions whether it is right that ‘some schools are more inclusive than others’