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CST says 'complex debate' needed on the fairness of rules over register removals after Astrea says not all schools follow legal advice

Ofsted inspectors have to undergo new training on understanding small schools before being able to inspect settings with 150 or fewer pupils

The new CEO of Oasis Community Learning came up through the trust services route, not the school route. He tells Matilda Martin why he thinks more leaders with this background would be good news for the sector

Unite says strikes in February and other industrial action stretching into exams season will have 'major impact', but SQA accuses union of 'scaremongering'

Jenny Gilruth has been told ‘teachers are struggling’ and need the government to deliver on its 2021 pledge to cut class contact time by 90 minutes a week

This week’s essential education news includes the NEU's plan to win support for teacher strike action and a major change to training and early career frameworks

ASCL questions how the government can measure secondary school student progress without a baseline from primary

AP is being used as a stopgap for shortcomings and a lack of places in the SEND system, major report warns

Jennifer Barker will join Ormiston Academies Trust from the charity Ambition Institute

The Archbishop of Canterbury is to launch a programme to help secondary school students navigate a 'polarised world'

EEF kicks off trial to see if ChatGPT can cut teachers' working hours but heads' leaders question focus on just one generative AI tool

Government should review the EHCP system and consider reforms to make the SEND support system sustainable, says MPs' report

Biggest teaching union plans to 'agitate' on teacher pay later this year

There has been a ‘plethora’ of reviews of Scottish education in recent years – but how much have they cost?

John Swinney gives evidence to Covid inquiry, which hears that alternatives to closing Scottish school buildings in March 2020 were not considered

NFER research recommends four ways the government could encourage more diversity in teaching and school leadership

​​​​​​​Attendance, implementation of the new curriculum, teacher recruitment and progress in literacy and numeracy all causing concern in Welsh chief inspector’s annual report

Conservative MP introduces parliamentary bill, saying training for teachers would help the early diagnosis of autism

It is hoped the new brand of qualification – which will be called VCSEs and will replace existing vocational qualifications such as Btecs – will improve parity of esteem

Combined framework will set out how teachers should be trained in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) support, oracy and mental health

Professor John McKendrick’s first annual report also says progress widening access to university in Scotland has ‘stalled’ despite a record number of students from deprived backgrounds securing places in 2021-22

School leaders' union warns unions will have no choice but to take industrial action if government fails to remedy 'neglect and underinvestment'

Cross-bench MPs’ committee is calling on the watchdog to 'rebuild trust' and 'make major changes to school inspections'

Academies and maintained schools should be replaced by a single system run by school boards, says think tank