General
Thursday
22nd May 2025
TLR payments 2025-26: how much extra can teachers earn?
As a qualified teacher with extra responsibilities, you could be entitled to a bit more in your pay packet. Find out the latest on TLR payments
Teacher pay scales 2025-26: what will your salary look like?
After the government’s announcement of a 4 per cent pay rise for teachers in England, here are the pay scales for the 2025-26 academic year
‘This pay award gives us a small but significant reason to hope’
The financial situation is tough for all in schools, but this pay award shows a shift in tone we should seize upon and credit, argues Tom Campbell, chief executive of E-ACT
Teachers to get 4% pay rise
The DfE has accepted the pay review body’s recommendation of 4% and announced it will provide £615m in additional funding to schools
Revealed: top inspection ratings out of reach for Scottish schools
Only seven schools have been rated ‘excellent’ for learning and teaching since 2016, according to a Tes investigation uncovering more than eight years of inspection findings
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How to create a truly inclusive education system
The executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives explains its new roadmap to help the government deliver a more inclusive school system – and why inclusion is so important
How trusts are tackling the ‘toughest budget round in a generation’
As leaders finalise budgets for next year, many are ‘immersed in restructures’, ‘stripping out’ resources and drawing from reserves, they tell Tes
Wednesday
21st May 2025
Deliver Scottish Diploma of Achievement, says commissioner
In an exclusive interview with Tes Scotland, children’s commissioner Nicola Killean also recommends a reduction in homework and the introduction of supervision for school staff
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Teachers at Outwood Grange to strike over longer school day
A letter to parents from the trust says both NEU and NASUWT union members will strike next month over plan to extend the school day to meet minimum expectation
Ofsted is rewriting its report card inspection toolkits
Tes understands the inspectorate is carrying out a ‘substantial’ rewrite of inspection toolkits it will use to grade schools in new inspections
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How Scottish schools are being equipped for AI-based learning
An AI curriculum framework for Scotland claims to be the world’s first to put children’s rights at its heart. As tools for navigating AI in education are launched today, Dr Jasmeen Kanwal sets out the key principles
Julian Drinkall steps down from GLF with ‘immediate effect’
The chief of the 43-school trust has left his post by ‘mutual agreement’ with GLF