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With popular approaches in teaching, it will always be hard to run a decent trial, warns Christian Bokhove

Thirteen schools and parent leaders write to Conservative MPs warning of ‘a devastating impact’ on education if next prime minister fails to stick to 2019 manifesto pledge on school funding

The Social Mobility Commission – led by Katharine Birbalsingh – has said it is particularly interested in teaching quality and style

Caroline Nokes, chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, said the move would make children feel supported

Exclusive: Freedom of Information response shows a top civil servant and Scotland’s leading education director sounded alarm over failed organisations being ‘perceived to be designing their own reform’

Headteachers’ leaders voice concern over new DfE plans to create guidance for language teachers

Your roundup of this week’s most-read news and features articles on Tes, includes the date of the planned teacher strike and calls for Ofsted to revise its approach to inspections

Will a multi-academy trust-led system be all about centralisation? How will finances work? How will primaries be persuaded to join MATs? We asked the experts for their views

The purpose of the Scottish curriculum is summed up by four phrases, known as capacities, but 60 per cent of pupils haven’t heard of them

If the government achieves its aim of every school belonging to an academy trust by 2030, what will that mean for the way schools are managed and run? Six experts give their views on what the education market will look like at a system level over the next decade

Meanwhile, a major multi-academy trust draws up proposals for subsidised teacher housing on surplus land to fund repairs and tackle recruitment crisis

Falling birth rates across the UK will have massive implications for schools, which are funded according to the number of pupils on their rolls. At a time when schools are already facing huge financial pressures, the future looks even bleaker, finds John Morgan