One thing about prison education is clear: if we are to prevent young lives being wasted, doing nothing is not an option

How tailoring college provision to the needs of local employers could risk shutting out global possibilities

Joe Wicks is going back to where his career began to try to help tackle children’s lack of physical activity

Funding follows warnings from teachers that pupils are not getting the support they need

Join the Tes team as we discuss all the developments in another crazy week in education policy

Move aims to make school uniform more affordable for poor families

30 years on from Section 28, we can't be complacent about LGBT rights in schools, writes David Weston

Teacher is banned for at least two years following a conviction for assault by beating relating to an incident in 2016

After the education secretary signalled that it's full steam ahead with T levels, Tes looks at what we know so far

Giving teachers access to research on using technology is a focus of the London Festival of Learning, writes Rose Luckin

The FE commissioner has released reports on three FE colleges, while two others have been removed from intervention

School governors deserve more status – the Tes/NGA survey is a chance for them to have their say, writes Emma Knights

Two key drivers of social mobility will disappear at the end of this term, writes Jonathan Godfrey

The proposal was not part of the government's new education and employment strategy for prisons

FE sector leaders want wholesale reform as a result of the government's post-18 review

New national assessments upset Scotland's youngest school pupils and don’t deliver valuable data, according to teachers

Guidance follows tragic death of primary school pupil who died with his mother at home

Colleges are being held back by unconscious prejudice and a lack of diversity among staff, writes Kayla Benjamin

Boys prepared a 'hit list' including fellow students and teachers who had supposedly bullied or wronged them, court told

Following the first GCSE paper of the new specification, one teacher reflects on his approaches to revision

One headteacher writes that her daughter is 'furious' that she won’t get her marked Sats papers back this week

Writing ahead of a major Tes investigation into the new-look GCSEs, a former education secretary plots more reform

Academics from University of Bristol share the findings of a project into promoting tolerance and diversity in schools

New government figures show low progression rate for 16- to 19-year-olds

Education secretary overrules concerns raised within the DfE about the time scale for implementing new qualifications

We need more teachers to write textbooks – the experience will improve their teaching, writes one maths expert

'Untouchable' schools and their pupils are just the tip of the iceberg – academisation has not worked, writes Colin Harris

The NAO's report on Ofsted is damning – there must be a better way to inspect our schools, writes one teachers' leader

Exam reforms could lead to more volatility in this summer's results, says Ofqual

Head of history who also set up a website profile using an email address containing the name of a pupil has been banned

Prison governors will be given more power over education provision to ensure that it meets employers' requirements

Drop is 'largely due to the decoupling of AS from A levels', says Ofqual

Fewer than two-thirds of new plans completed within the time limit

Spending watchdog warns that HMI are leaving for better-paid jobs in academy chains

Inspectorate misses statutory and internal targets for how often schools should be inspected, says National Audit Office

Inspectorate is pressing DfE to scrap rule that restricts inspections of top-rated schools

Findings come as thousands of GCSE pupils sit their maths exam today

Charity calls for action as poll reveals many children are posting content that they later regret

We need a unifying grand theory on the goals of education that allows teachers different perspectives, says Bill Lucas

There are big differences between education in the UK and Germany - but 'importing an imperfect system' isn't the answer

Teacher banned for referring to tutor group as 'fucking idiots' and letting pupils leave the school site

While all political parties support apprenticeships, only a small proportion of MPs employ them, Tes research reveals

Minister dismisses advice that Pupil Equity Fund could bring back swimming lessons

Direct instruction has been mis-sold, misinterpreted and badly served in education, argues academic Paul Kirschner

The chief executive of the Prince’s Trust is the preferred candidate for chair of the Social Mobility Commission

US teenagers take to Twitter to voice what their wishes would be if they were to die in a school shooting

Education is so much more than just preparing our pupils to be 'workplace ready', writes one geography teacher

‘It’s common to find teenagers crying with stress’ – one teacher offers advice to parents of students sitting exams

Instead, we need to think more deeply about ensuring the inspection is valid and reliable, writes one expert

Event planned for 2020 inset day to avoid workload and childcare challenges of Saturday conferences

Michael Curry’s royal wedding sermon was a powerful example of the persuasive techniques we teach at GCSE, says Liz Hawker

Sarah Simons and Education and Training Foundation chief exec David Russell discuss the latest news in FE

Charity calls on schools to include the issue of bullying based on a person's appearance in PHSE lessons

Attending a grammar school has little impact on teenagers' academic results, happiness or aspirations, study shows

Oscar winner and Pixar co-founder Loren Carpenter lectures Slough college students on the power of virtual reality

Schools are too 'weighed down with other agendas' to focus on giving pupils careers advice, DfE official is told

But Scottish plans to almost double free nursery hours for many children still face numerous obstacles

And five other things we learned from today's education committee hearing

But opposition politicians claim that the money is plugging basic funding gaps – not helping disadvantaged pupils

As with the Laurel/Yanny illusion, words and phrases often sound like one thing to schools and another to the government

A good professional working culture works wonders in schools – here's how to achieve one

Data drops do nothing to improve education – it's time for meaningful conversations about data instead

Most parents feel schools and policymakers are not taking account of their views

Businesses are being held back by a 'lack of good skilled people to work for them', Labour MP tells chancellor

One year after the Manchester Arena attack, the Survivors Assistance Network offers advice for classroom discussions

The move by UCU members comes only days after a similar decision at Sandwell College

Gibb tells select committee he doesn't know how many deprived pupils will benefit from selective school fund

Theresa May says teachers can help to make Britain a meritocracy

WorldSkills UK has announced the apprentices and students representing the UK in the skills competition in Budapest

One in five students taking up degree places come from London, compared with just 4 per cent from the North East

Reading is deliciously enjoyable and good for you, too – it doesn't matter which book you pick, says Katie Thistleton

Then why not humanise education’s endlessly jumbled policy agenda with some face-to-face conversation, says David James

The system needs to change to relieve the overwhelming pressure on teachers who are also parents

Bill to hand more powers to the Social Mobility Commission proposed by education committee chair Robert Halfon

Humanists challenge government on plan to allow new voluntary-aided schools with 100 per cent faith-based admissions

The joy of great art is in the understanding – to reduce it to emojis does our pupils a disservice, write one author

College students receive childcare support – but this won't be expanded to apprentices, skills minister Anne Milton said

One teacher explains how the role of 'gender champion' has been created at her school to tackle unconscious gender bias

The Co-op, the biggest corporate sponsor of academies, is looking to hire maths, science and geography teachers

The challenges of Sats week are over – now it's time to help the kids enjoy the last months of primary, writes one head

The process of writing and publishing a novel improves pupils' skills and raises self-esteem, Kate Parker discovers

The NUS has backed Labour's calls for free bus travel for under 25s - and wants more support for apprentices

One experienced headteacher says it's the way that schools game the Sats system that keeps him awake at night

Could an automated robot arm transform handwriting lessons as we know them? Kate Parker reports

Teacher workload is having disastrous consequences – but some leaders are taking positive steps, says Tom Rogers

What started out as healthy competition between schools has turned sour – and now we have the evidence, writes one head

Nicol's charming sequel casts a spell for pupils at Berrow Church of England Primary School in Somerset

Paul Howard-Jones' intriguing, yet sometimes frustrating, book examines applications of neuroscience in education

Catholic schools can teach the rest of the sector about the educational benefits of good values, writes Henry Hepburn

There is a lot of overlap between colleges and universities, writes Barnaby Lenon. Why are they treated so differently?

Your one-stop shop for the week's biggest education news

Supporting a traumatised student can be stressful for a teacher, but you can protect yourself, writes Darren Martindale

The best teachers will always go above and beyond, no matter what the workload. To tackle burnout, focus on wellbeing

Whether teachers love emojis or hate them, is there any proof of their effect on learning? We find out in 18 May issue of Tes

One student with Asperger syndrome reflects on her school life, and suggests what teachers can do to tackle the stigma

The MP and former primary teacher and NUT union organiser tells Martin George about what she wants to accomplish

Colleges aren’t even given a fighting chance of making a success of the forced GCSE resits policy, says Stephen Exley

Exam questions too often make students search for a 'fixed' answer and don't encourage creativity, writes Andrew Otty

Pooling resources can save time and effort while keeping lesson standards high, argues one English teacher