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Call for ‘clarity on the precise details’ of plan to reduce Scottish teachers’ time with classes by 90 minutes a week

The DfE also announces plans to publish a Strategic Action Plan for Careers in 2024

Unions say 6.5% pay increase must be 'only first step' to restoring 'pay lost in real terms against inflation since 2010'

Ofsted study finds some secondary schools temporarily removed music from their curriculum because of a shortage of specialist teachers

Findings from a major new report into the root causes of the crisis in attendance in England’s schools

NFER recommends the government should widen the scope of the teacher recruitment and retention strategy to include TAs

The education committee heard earlier this year there was limited coordination between schools, local services and authorities on criminal child exploitation

Scottish education directors 'struggle to see the logic' of an absolute commitment to maintaining teacher numbers and hope relaxing ring-fenced budget will allow more flexibility

In upper secondary school, too much time is spent rehearsing for exams, leading to ‘disillusionment and frustration’, MSPs hear

Commons Education Committee chair Robin Walker asks DfE how a contract targeting the reduction of new EHCPs squares with ministerial evidence given to MPs

Ofsted inspectors found that only a small number of schools have a clearly defined and broad physical education curriculum

Think tank calls for public commitment not to 'artificially' lower or limit the number of education, health and care plans issued

The education secretary made the claim as she updated MPs on how the government is handling the presence of collapse-risk RAAC

The education secretary and Downing Street were given advice to change guidance on 21 August after two incidents in which RAAC planks failed

The government has published an updated list of the schools confirmed to have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as of 14 September

Inspectorate reveals findings on how geography is taught in England's primary and secondary schools

Figure rises to 92 per cent of headteachers amid cost-of-living crisis, research finds

DfE commits to a three-year deadline for reducing teachers' working hours, and confirms it is refreshing its 2019 recruitment and retention strategy

Strikes by school support staff – due to take place in a fortnight – could close three out of four schools in Scotland

COBIS letter to Gillian Keegan warns that 'significant' elements of British education that international schools deliver are 'not fit for purpose'

Trusts leader flags "significant concern and anxiety" among CEOs over potential RAAC problems with maintained schools that have become part of MATs

Changes to the government's teacher recruitment and retention strategy must account for growing demand for flexible working, say experts

This week’s essential education news includes school support staff voting on a strike, teachers taking industrial action over workload, and the DfE planning to reboot teacher recruitment

However, half of schools on the Nuffield Early Language Intervention were not able to finish the programme because of staff time and capacity issues, finds report