General
Thursday
8th May 2025
Progress scores have fallen in Priority Education Investment Areas
FFT Education Datalab found the average Progress 8 score in Priority Education Investment Areas was lower in 2024 than in 2022 when the scheme began
Concern over silence on Oak probe
An independent review into Oak National Academy was set to conclude in early 2025 but the DfE cannot say when it will be published or provide meeting details
Exclusive
What schools are doing to tackle the speech and language ‘crisis’
The number of children with speech and language challenges is soaring. And not all of these pupils have SEND. Experts tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger how in-school intervention is possible – and highly effective
Wednesday
7th May 2025
Stephen Morgan: ‘We’re bringing exam results into the 21st century’
Education minister Stephen Morgan explains why he is confident a new app to deliver GCSE results will make life easier for students – and help schools save time and money
Keep AI away from early years, says digital learning expert
Human teachers must remain at the forefront of early education, as artificial intelligence could make mistakes when children are encountering ‘key big ideas’ for the first time, school leaders in Scotland told
Using special-school staff to boost SEND skills across a trust
The SEND lead at Maritime Academy Trust explains how the group turned to its specialist provision to provide CPD and build confidence across all its schools
How we dumbed down teaching - and what we must do to fix it
Over the past decade, teaching has been pushed towards a prescriptive model that reduces intellectual curiosity and overlooks essential classroom engagement, argues Sam Gibbs
Saturday
3rd May 2025
Heads vote to open way for academies to rejoin LAs
NAHT national executive talks up a mandate to ‘lobby government for a system that suits the needs of schools’
Call for consistent approach to security in Scottish schools
School security ‘varies considerably’ across the country for a variety of reasons, the NASUWT teaching union will say today
NAHT to take Ofsted to court over school report cards
School leaders’ union issues a claim for a judicial review against Ofsted in response to its proposed changes to the inspection system