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Education secretary stops short of confirming plans for mandatory reading test in Year 8, but defends the testing of students’ literacy skills

NFER says teacher shortages will leave schools relying on non-specialists, timetable changes or returners to plug gaps

Government also says that Oak National Academy’s creation as an arm’s-length body has added a ‘degree of risk and uncertainty’ to domestic edtech market

A lack of provision for students wanting to study Mandarin is one thing, but the current A-level exam specifications are putting many off, too, warns this school language lead

Teacher Tapp survey of KS1 and EYFS teachers finds 67 per cent faced technical issues when administering the Reception baseline assessment

Young people are turning to AI for comfort and reassurance – and this poses some major safeguarding risks that schools need to guard against, says this academic

New figures show that in-school knife crime incidents have decreased in many areas of England. Ellen Peirson-Hagger hears from leaders about what they are doing to drive this reduction, and whether it’s enough

Inclusion focus risks ‘danger’ for schools directed to take on pupils whose needs they cannot meet, warns leader

In an exclusive interview, Ofsted’s national director of education insists it will be able to fund an increase in monitoring inspections under its new system – despite not having tried to predict the likely number

More than seven in 10 school leaders are not satisfied with Ofsted’s new inspection system, a poll of ASCL members suggests

Schools need to look at much earlier interventions to improve outcomes for disadvantaged white children, a new study suggests

And nearly half of primary teachers now say that pupil misbehaviour affects their wellbeing, DfE survey finds