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A five-week summer break and a two-week October holiday are proposed, but a school leaders’ union says it is ‘bewildered’ by the plans

The status quo in Scottish education is no longer sustainable and a lack of urgency in reforms could make our existing shortcomings even worse, says Melvyn Roffe

The executive director of NASBTT presents some ideas that could help Labour to fulfil its promise of 6,500 new teachers – and keep them for longer, too

Beyond Ofsted inquiry also calls for immediate pause to routine inspections to allow the watchdog to ‘regain trust’

What did the 2023 Autumn Statement have in store for schools, and how did the sector respond?

School leaders must be ‘brave’ and push for education reform to ‘move forward at pace’, hears annual gathering of secondary headteachers

More is being done to help schools tackle the scourge of youth violence, but it needs to go further – and faster, says Anne Longfield, chair of the Commission on Young Lives

Psychology is now the second most popular A-level subject in England – but the number of new teachers remains far below what’s needed. So, what’s going on and how can it be fixed?

This week’s must-read education news includes the exit of long-serving schools minister Nick Gibb and the return of a former education secretary

All schools should be rebuilt every 75 years, say school business professionals, but current investment would leave some waiting beyond the year 2500

But it’s not clear that Curriculum for Excellence is to blame for long-term declines in Scotland’s Pisa education rankings, finds the IFS

ESFA plan to contact academy trusts whose reserves fall below a threshold is ‘unreasonable’, warns school business leader