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Can schools have an ‘unreasonable complaints’ policy? Can parents record meetings? And do you have to investigate all complaints no matter how outlandish?

Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT

Election purdah has deepened delays to specialist maths schools programme, trust leader warns

Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be ‘faced down’

Smartphones in classrooms cause ‘severe loss in focus’ among pupils and fuel ‘hostility’ towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament

School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools

LocatED director previously claimed that schools were sitting on surplus land ‘the size of central London’

A new international sustainability diploma shows how Scottish educational reform might play out in classrooms, explains headteacher Ian Munro

If the next government truly wants to grow the country, it should not overlook the dividends that an investment in education pays – and where the money needs to go

Local authorities say they ‘recognise the vital role of teachers’ but that ‘progress cannot be made by focusing on teachers alone’

The general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders outlines three key statistics that should sharpen the mind of the next government

The next government must recognise that forcing unfunded salary rises for support staff onto schools is not viable and it is hollowing out a vital layer of staff, says Duncan Spalding