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At this school, students are never set cover work, and instead are sent to the open learning centre – but how does it work? Sherish Osman explains all

Asking school leaders to demand vaccine passports for entry to Christmas shows would put them in ‘invidious position’, MSPs hear

A new law requiring school uniform costs to be kept low means yet another thing for heads and SLTs to think about – as insights from the Headteachers’ Roundtable forum make clear

More than 1 in 5 academy trusts had reserves equivalent to 20 per cent or more of annual income in 2019-20, says report

There has been a rise in the number of teachers, school leaders and support staff having symptoms like panic attacks and tearfulness

Call for the teacher training provider reaccreditation timetable to be ‘pushed back’

Councils should publicly condemn the use of TikTok to target school staff, says Scottish headteachers’ organisation

EXCLUSIVE: One in three requests from school leaders to defer inspections due to the pandemic has been turned down by Ofsted this term

Schools’ hard work building relationships in lockdown is being squandered in misguided bid to ‘get children back to normal’, hear MSPs

Calls are being made for more safeguarding measures due to rising the number of children being home educated

Children’s distress must be the focus more than their violent behaviour – and this will also help keep school staff safe, says David Cameron

We’ve all experienced imposter syndrome – if left unchecked, it can be really damaging. Here, one leader shares how she beats it