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Using repurposed money to address Covid crisis is ‘completely inadequate to the scale of the challenge’, warns union

Labour aims to protect new teachers and boost academic recovery from the pandemic with tutoring plan

The DfE says flexible working will help retention – but not if part-time means working extra hours, says Yvonne Williams

The Teachers’ Pension Scheme is under attack – and it isn’t just a private-school problem, says David James

Seven behaviour experts will cost DfE £1 million over the course of controversial three-year scheme

Scottish education is ‘coasting’ and it is time for ‘greatly increased’ school autonomy, says think tank

Exclusive: Letter from leading expert calls on statistics watchdog probe into claim UK Pisa data ‘biases’ were not investigated

From ‘billions’ in funding to handpicked tutors – all we learned from the recovery commissioner’s talk at today’s Schools North East event

Alba is promising a ‘bonfire of paperwork so teachers can teach’ and a broadening of the curriculum

Catch-up tsar says some people will accuse him of making ‘a disaster’ of things but that his ‘bigger challenge’ is securing resources

Government catch-up tsar wants to give schools freedom to pick their own ‘verified and qualified’ tutors, unlike National Tutoring Programme system

Catch-up funding must be ‘in the billions’, says recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins as he talks of ‘extending’ the ‘educational experience’