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Admin staff are being used to run lessons because of teacher absence, as schools wait for government guidance on ‘living with Covid’

Exclusive: Researchers dispute evidence behind Monday’s Schools White Paper call for academy trusts to be ‘on a trajectory’ to running 10 schools or 7,500 pupils

But EIS is opposed and says ‘nonsensical’ removal of free lateral flow testing could be ‘devastating’ for students sitting exams

Chief executive of the Education Policy Institute, Natalie Perera, laments the lack of focus in the White Paper on giving schools more scope to tackle issues that have caused a widening disadvantage gap

Vote result comes after members of Scotland’s biggest teaching union voted to accept the 2021-22 teacher pay deal

New Teacher Tapp data shows some teacher support for the ‘Parent Pledge’ but very few think it will actually raise standards

The drop comes as the 2021-22 Covid ‘uplift’ in Pupil Equity Funding is removed, meaning some schools will be over £90,000 worse off in 2022-23

Warning over DfE plan to ‘make it easier’ for funding aimed at disadvantaged pupils to be spent on improving literacy and numeracy

The Will Smith and Chris Rock Oscars incident is the talk of the classroom – and there’s plenty to learn from it, says Alan Gillespie

The families of pupils with SEND will be wondering why it has taken so long to get to this point – but at least the Green Paper offers hope of positive change, says Rob Webster

Many schools and local authorities have contracts with Russian firm Gazprom

Large majority of voters back EIS stance on teacher pay offer, on a turnout of 45 per cent