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The influential Queen Street Group of multi-academy trusts pledges to support small MATs and help more women to become leaders

Striking teachers turn out to express ‘outrage’ over latest pay offer and ‘determination to secure a much improved, genuinely fair’ settlement

Politicians are fond of using international education rankings data as evidence that their policies are working – but conclusions drawn from these league tables are rarely clear cut, warns Christian Bokhove

With a national teacher pay strike in Scotland now certain to go ahead, here are 17 things EIS members need to know

We shouldn’t be looking to improve schools through external intervention – let’s trust the trusts and support them to do the job instead, argues Leora Cruddas

Church of England launches leadership scheme to support 450 minority-ethnic teachers into headship across all types of schools

Cognitive load theory has been a staple of evidence-based teaching for years – but there’s more to it than meets the eye, says Michael Hobbiss, who breaks down the research about load theory

Celebrating students’ achievements and avoiding negative comparisons could avoid sharp decline in wellbeing, finds research

After an ‘insulting’ teacher pay offer this afternoon, the first national pay strike since the 1980s will go ahead on Thursday

Funding constraints are pushing schools to ‘redesignate’ staff as tutors without any extra cover, says NAHT boss

Ofsted report showing high number of top-rated schools being downgraded may paint a ‘misleading’ picture, leader warns

As deadlines loom for important consultations on education reform, it is crucial that they are not defined by apathy, says headteacher Peter Bain