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Next week’s Scottish Budget will decide whether key education policies succeed, states the EIS in a letter seeking assurances from the first minister and the finance secretary

The legal minimum staff ratios for the early years are shockingly insufficient, writes this teacher, and overstretched budgets mean they are likely to be seen more often

School leaders tend to operate in connected ‘communities’ – leaving thousands of schools missing out on leadership expertise, research warns

Informal school leadership networks give some schools access to expertise and support – and leave others out in the cold, new EPI research warns

Inclusive teaching for pupils with SEND should not just be an ‘add-on’ to training and development, warns union

In response to the review’s call for evidence, sector organisations recommend changes to assessments and the scrapping of performance measures

Exam board also talks up high-stakes end-of-year exams as a way of assessing students efficiently and fairly

Best Practice Network – one of the current providers of the Early Career Framework – has not been awarded a new contract, ÌÇÐÄVlog understands

As SQA prepares to change into Qualifications Scotland in late 2025, it says it wants to ‘win back trust’ among teachers and students and use technology to ‘streamline’ services

A headteacher outlines why those in education should welcome the Department for Education’s move to tackle for-profit care home providers

DfE is to take ‘a fundamental look’ at the SEND system and it is working with the Treasury on a solution for council deficits

The number of children being classed as having SEND is overwhelming – but have we stopped to think that the system could be to blame, asks the leader of E-ACT academy trust