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Larry Flanagan will stand down from his post as general secretary this summer – and hasn’t ruled out a return to the classroom

The world-renowned educationalist behind the ‘Hole in the Wall’ computer experiment predicts what will be next in education

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Schools encouraged teachers to think outside of the box during Covid – and now we need to empower them to innovate in more ‘normal’ times, says Jon Severs

MPs criticise the use of public funds to ‘prop up academy trusts in difficulty’ in damning report

Staff need time to build trusting relationships if they are to tackle peer-on-peer sexual harassment – but that requires investment, say heads in Wales

Move comes after Scotland became first country in the world to make period products free for all in 2020

Professor Elizabeth Bjork says competitive true-false questions can also help introduce the necessary level of ‘desirable difficulty’ to testing to help boost student recall

Professor Sugata Mitra argues this will help make exams fit for purpose in the modern world during a panel discussion on the future of assessment at the World Education Summit

Last week Scottish school staff absence hit the highest level this year – but schools remain under pressure, with face masks in communal areas to be retained next term

Within our existing diagnostic system, neurodivergent young people aren’t always getting the support they need in school, says researcher Sue Fletcher-Watson, but the neurodiversity paradigm could be about to change that

If the DfE really is determined to publish secondary school league tables this year after all the Covid disruption, then it needs to make sure that the data is handled with care, says Steve Rollett