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Heads’ leaders urge the government to put more investment into education in the Budget to prevent staff cuts and school closures

Union says Ofsted chief should step aside after nearly all teacher respondents to NEU poll say they have no faith in the watchdog’s leadership

As the NEU teaching union calls on the government not to claw back savings, ÌÇÐÄVlog sets out whether schools could keep the money and what doing so would mean for public finances

Union also considers indicative ballot on industrial action if more is not done to mitigate the impact of inspection on wellbeing

Despite Ofsted welcoming findings from an independent evaluation of its inspections, heads’ leaders question Sir Martyn Oliver’s claim that the watchdog is ‘on the right track’

Amid fierce criticism of its school inspections, Ofsted has been asked by education secretary Lucy Powell to go ‘back to the drawing board’. John Roberts assesses whether it can find a path out of this crisis

NEU calls for tests to be scrapped after survey highlights teachers’ fears that they will narrow the curriculum and crank up workload pressure

ASCL’s senior members are meeting this week to decide how to take ‘more assertive action’ over inspection concerns

Teachers who experience severe student behaviour are more likely to report suffering migraines, nausea and high blood pressure, finds NASUWT survey

Ballot of teachers on industrial action had been due to begin next month, but the union says it believes the government is making progress on school funding

Education secretary says pressure caused by broader accountability system – with Ofsted a ‘core part of that’ – is ‘constantly’ on the government’s mind

New performance awards risk creating inequality, warn the NAHT and NASUWT as the unions call for changes to the government’s pay reforms