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Research highlighting the impact on children’s social and emotional development shows the ‘urgent’ need for better-funded services, says heads’ union leader

Union boss says schools in England will be taking action ‘to tackle excessive workload and working hours’

The government has offered a 6.5 per cent pay rise for teachers from September 2023. What will happen next?

Nearly 9 in 10 teachers who voted in a ballot held by the NEU union wanted to accept the government’s pay deal, after months of strike action

University of Greenwich, whose teacher training programme received a positive Ofsted rating but failed to be reaccredited, urges education secretary to review process

With new figures showing a high dropout rate for teacher trainees last year, school-based training providers warn they are being put off by the realities of school funding and staff workloads

A major UNESCO report on edtech urges governments to bring more regulation to the edtech space, explains report contributor Dr Velislava Hillman

Keir Starmer is right that we need both knowledge and skills – and we have to move beyond these old divides if children are to thrive, argues Leora Cruddas

The number of schools and pupil starts on the National Tutoring programme has risen compared with last year, new figures suggest

This week’s essential education news includes a record number of school suspensions, analysis of the teacher pay deal and the challenges facing the next head of Ofsted

The number of trainees who failed to qualify with QTS was up by 40 per cent in 2021-22

New government data on suspensions shows the surge in behaviour issues that schools are having to contend with – and which year groups are proving most problematic