Tuesday
Scottish council elections: key education manifesto pledges
From longer school days to more free school meals, we look at five manifesto pledges from each of the main parties
Head to head: Does underlining really matter?
Does underlining really make a difference in maintaining standards of neatness and behaviour? Here, two teachers share their opinions
Education must agree its purpose - or remain a polarised profession
After a Twitterstorm erupted after their last article, Tim Brighouse and Mick Waters worry about how quick education is to polarise itself, especially at a time when agreeing education’s key purpose is needed more than ever
Ofsted: More schools to get ‘longer’ inspections
Watchdog’s new five-year plan also includes commitment to hold academy chains to account
More than 1 in 3 secondary heads leave within 5 years
School leadership supply ‘teetering on the brink’, headteachers’ union warns
Friday
Need to know: SEND advisers, NTP bid and phonics
A roundup of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including new government SEND advisers, NTP contract bids and how phonics became an education culture war
Randstad to make fresh catch-up bid if in schools’ ‘best interests’
Exclusive: Randstad’s National Tutoring Programme director Karen Guthrie speaks to Tes on the firm’s much-slated handling of the government’s flagship education recovery effort
DfE could face legal action over Institute of Teaching contract
Exclusive: Ambition Institute led consortium is understood to be considering legal action after DfE named rival School Led Development Trust as preferred bidder
Education reform must make clear purpose of inspection
Tories call for school inspection ‘to restart urgently’ – but how much is enough and what’s the point anyway, asks Emma Seith
