Thursday
Zahawi: Teacher strike would be ‘unforgivable’
Teachers going on strike over pay would cause further disruption to pupils’ education after the pandemic, the education secretary says
DfE launches £750K plan to promote flexible working in schools
The DfE says its chosen provider will deliver a ‘culture change programme’ to embed flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts
Pay rise proposals ‘not enough’ to solve Stem teacher shortage
Recruitment targets for physics and computing are highly unlikely to be achieved under any package of measures, report warns
Reducing workload and flexible working could boost teacher recruitment
Long-term forecasts from the National Foundation for Educational Research show that, without further uplifts in new teacher pay, the sector will struggle to hit its targets
Wednesday
Almost 4 in 10 teachers ‘would support strike’ over 3% pay rise
Exclusive: Support for a teacher strike could increase without a better pay offer, and government should be ‘very concerned’, warns heads’ union leader
Transgender and non-binary students: legal issues in Scotland
Lawyers Lorna Davis and Claire Fowler explain planned changes in legislation and recently published guidance on supporting transgender students in schools
Teacher strike warning as prices hit 40-year high
Largest teaching union warns it will ballot for strike action if members don’t receive a fully-funded inflation-plus pay rise
Trans students: the legal risks for schools
Official guidance clarifying the legal position for schools on how they support trans-identified children is urgently needed, argues this discrimination lawyer
Is single-sex schooling becoming a thing of the past?
Scotland’s last all-girls state school started taking in boys in 2021-22, but what does that tell us about the future of single-sex schooling? Emma Seith investigates
Tuesday
How schools responded to rail strikes
Heads have praised the ‘resilience’ of staff after schools worked to minimise the disruption caused by strike action today
Guidance on the use of restraint not enough, says commissioner
Proposed new official guidance on the use of restraint in schools must be ‘put on a statutory footing’, says Scotland’s children’s commissioner
More than quarter of a million students met threshold for absence fines
Students with Send and those who are disadvantaged were more likely to meet the thresholds for consideration of a parental fine, new analysis shows
