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There is no place in our schools for violent behaviour, Jenny Gilruth tells secondary teachers' union after being asked about the steps she is taking to protect staff

Department for Education says Sats tests are 'designed to be challenging' and to 'stretch' even the most capable amid concern over reading paper

Strike action is looming at a Glasgow private school over changes to teacher pensions – and other schools could ‘impose similar detrimental changes’ without government intervention, a union warns

New research reveals a fifth of families with children under six are living in conditions that negatively impact education attainment and health

The role of local governance in multi-academy trusts is explored in a new report by the National Governance Association – here are its key findings

MAT chief executives are sounding the alarm over how academies are being rebrokered and trusts penalised for taking on challenging schools

Impact on teachers may be 'devastating and often career ending, even if they are eventually found to have done nothing wrong', says union

Three high-profile multi-academy-trust chief executives are understood to be in the running to replace Amanda Spielman

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week's Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

Leader of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association will say in an address tomorrow that he fears proposed changes to assessment will ‘only add to teacher workload’

But a new survey shows widespread concerns about how manageable moving to an online system would be for schools

Next month it will be three years since Angela Morgan published her support-for-learning review. She talks about how Scottish education still needs a 'radical redesign'

Even school staff were left 'struggling to understand the questions' in yesterday's key stage 2 Sats reading paper, warns the NAHT

Think tank warns outcomes in primary maths have still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels

Academics have told a Commons committee that a review of RSE should stick to the evidence base and not react to ‘sensationalist examples’ of bad practice

Ofqual warns that putting pupils through too many assessments could have an adverse effect on some students’ mental well-being

The UK statistics watchdog responds to both DfE and NEU over row about affordability of teacher pay offer

Only one in seven teachers thinks the return to pre-pandemic course assessments in Scotland is a positive move at Higher level, Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association research suggests

The next phase of the Welsh universal free meal rollout in primary will begin in September with pupils in Years 3 and 4 benefiting

Three-fifths of teachers spend more time dealing with pupils' emotional needs and behaviour than before the pandemic, survey finds

Watchdog finds staff want more training to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities

The organisation's shift in language is an attempt to 'deflect criticism of government centralisation of the curriculum', warns headteachers' union boss

But before this can happen, government needs to improve its ’piecemeal and lacklustre’ approach to technology in schools, headteachers‘ leader warns

Teacher stress is not a strong reason to abolish Sats, say researchers after study shows that Year 6 teachers' anxiety levels quickly return to normal after test week