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National efforts to make schools more inclusive risk ignoring the huge amount of expertise in the specialist sector, say headteachers

ÌÇÐÄVlogt scores, confidence or enjoyment of subjects do not suffer as a result of setting or streaming, researchers suggest

Opposition parties make education the focus of First Minister’s Questions, after week of concerns over teacher numbers and rising numbers of pupils with ASN

Meanwhile, separate DfE statistics show a sharp increase in children who are in elective home education

The SQA investigated the drop in the Higher history pass rate this year because, as both the awarding body and regulator, it was its job – but should it be?

The post-pandemic funding boost to cover all NPQ courses was clearly paying off – which is why cutbacks seem ill-timed and ill-advised, says this facilitator

The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds

Series of rises in GTCS registration fees will amount to a 35% increase on the current level by 2027

Councils to get extra £69m to restore teacher numbers to 2023 levels – pupil learning hours will also be frozen and teachers’ non-class contact time ‘rapidly’ progressed

The role of universities in teacher training has been diminished because their work in the sector has been underplayed, argues the Russell Group’s Jamie Roberts

Increasing specialist provision in mainstream schools will be costly and require ‘massive change’, warns Institute of Fiscal Studies

A major review on protecting children from sexual abuse should help schools to consider their processes and staff training needs – and gives some clues about updates to official safeguarding guidance