In this episode of the Tes News podcast, we discuss:

• Teacher pay on a knife edge
  
  Tes correspondent Callum Mason explains the political chaos and mounting pressure over teacher pay as leaders await to hear what the rise will mean for their budgets.
   
• What secondary leaders need to know about Sats results
  
  Grainne Hallahan talks through a piece where the Sats results are subject to closer scrutiny, and the picture isn’t as bleak as you might have thought.
   
• Why you should set up an R&D department
  
  Research and development departments might be common in industry, but would you expect to see them in schools? We discuss what they might look like and the benefits of setting them up.

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