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More guidance needed on how to deal with safeguarding issues such as sexual harassment and violence, ÌÇÐÄVlog survey suggests

The secondary school curriculum is ‘broken’ and needs to be reformed to make careers education a mainstream feature, experts tell House of Lords committee

A student has raised a safeguarding concern, but what happens next? Safeguarding lead Thomas Michael sets out the steps

Almost a quarter of pupils were persistently absent in autumn term 2022-23

Education secretary grilled in Parliament after violent incident in secondary school, but insists that such cases are ‘not the norm’

Teachers persistently mispronouncing a student’s name can make the child feel undervalued, says Gideon Hammond, who has come up with a simple initiative to help

New research reveals a fifth of families with children under six are living in conditions that negatively impact education attainment and health

Sufian Sadiq explains why trying to impose identikit behaviour management policies ignores school context and risks alienating children and communities. Instead, more nuanced and long-term views must be taken

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week’s Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

A leader at a school that has run a student mentor programme for over 10 years explains how to make it work and why it’s so beneficial for all involved

Academics have told a Commons committee that a review of RSE should stick to the evidence base and not react to ‘sensationalist examples’ of bad practice

As new research reveals that attending a ‘high-achieving’ school is a risk factor for mental health problems, psychologist Tara Porter considers what this means for how teachers work with their top attainers