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Schools standards minister Jonathan Gullis, Andrea Jenkyns and Baroness Barran form the rest of Kit Malthouse’s team

Union boss issues scathing attack on relaunched Oak National Academy, calling it a ‘vanity project’ that will worsen teacher shortages

Sam Freedman explains why ‘scrapping the whole families agenda was the biggest mistake of the Gove era’ and why a new report he’s authored elaborates on how this wrong can be made right

Union leader was re-elected unopposed for a second term last year

Telling pupils to ‘work hard’ is not enough – they need to be taught effective learning strategies early, says metacognition expert

Exclusive: Government told that ‘urgent’ action is needed to ensure that its flagship catch-up scheme retains its ‘core focus’ on disadvantaged pupils

Leaders feel ‘demoralised, undervalued’ and unable to provide the education that pupils need due to cost pressures, unions warn

Education Scotland ‘will not tolerate’ the type of comments made about Scottish Learning Festival sessions on antiracism

Physics, computing, English and biology are facing particular problems, new data shows

New research looks at how differences in textbooks might affect pupils’ performance in maths, but we should be wary of reading too much into it, says Christian Bokhove

Scottish Qualifications Authority staff ‘overwhelmingly’ agree new pay deal, after they took unprecedented strike action

New ONS data also shows less than half of students on free school meals have received at least one vaccine dose