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The vast majority of Scottish schools receive cash from the Pupil Equity Fund – and a new report highlights how 129 schools are using the money ‘impactfully’ and ‘innovatively’

The Scottish government should immediately withdraw its ‘out of date’ guidance for schools and issue new guidance in the wake of Supreme Court ruling, says SSTA

Estonia is one of Pisa’s biggest success stories, but what’s behind the country’s impressive results? Henry Hepburn finds out in an exclusive interview with education minister Kristina Kallas

The Cam and ACES academy trusts announce a planned merger that would result in a 17-school MAT

Reframing the narrative around maths is essential to helping overcome pupils’ fears about the subject, say these two teachers

It’s no use schools having ‘high expectations’ if leaders don’t take the time to define what they look like, or make sure everyone upholds them, writes Jarlath O’Brien

We don’t have to wait for structural reform or the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, because joined-up relationships are shaped locally, says this MAT chief executive

Report calls for reform of maths Sats and GCSE and warns pupils are being rushed through a crowded curriculum

Staff have been told the inspectorate’s response to its consultation will likely be later than it had planned but that it is not looking to delay its new inspections

Data obtained by Tes shows surge in access arrangements for KS2 Sats, fuelling concerns about a decline in pupils’ handwriting and system’s susceptibility to abuse

The argument that ‘everyone speaks English anyway’ falls apart when subjected to scrutiny, says Catriona Egerton

Teachers are crying out for stronger subject-specific CPD, says Mark Enser – and this is how schools can give it to them