Thursday
5 fail-safe cover lessons for when you’re ill
As winter colds start to make the rounds, here are five easy lessons you can leave for students with little notice
New education director for Scotland’s biggest council
Long-serving Glasgow education director Maureen McKenna will retire at the end of the year
Wednesday
Need to know: What the Budget means for schools
From Covid recovery to pay rises – everything teachers and leaders need to know about today’s school spending plans
‘Sunak’s cheap catch-up will cause damage for years’
Teachers and heads say £1.8 billion in new funding is catch-up ‘on the cheap’ and ‘nowhere near’ enough
Budget: Covid catch-up fund boosted by £1.8bn
But recovery funds fall far short of the £15bn that the government’s former catch-up tsar said was needed
Covid: Up to 1 in 3 pupils infected in virus hot spots
New School Infection Survey data shows how many pupils are likely to have had Covid in some areas since November 2020
Male teachers ‘twice as likely to want headship’
Women teachers are less likely to see themselves as a head but more likely to aim for pastoral lead roles, a poll shows
Study calls for more tutoring to close attainment gap
Children living in poverty need support now more than ever as Covid has widened inequalities, finds report
Tuesday
More than half of 12-15s in Scotland get first jab
First minister Nicola Sturgeon reveals the latest figures in her first Covid update since Parliament’s October break
4 outdated teaching trends we need to ditch
Just because we’ve been doing something for years, it doesn’t mean it’s still relevant today, writes Bhamika Bhudia
We will be ‘forced to close schools’, warn unions
Strike action affecting schools is planned for one week in November, during the COP26 climate summit
‘Grave concerns’ over funds to lift teacher pay freeze
Chancellor set to lift public sector pay freeze – but schools must not be left to ‘foot the bill’, says heads’ union leader
