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Sexual harm is rising in schools - but is there enough resource to tackle it?
As a ÌÇÐÄVlog investigation highlights the increase in sexual violence and sexual harassment in schools, experts call for more training and support to respond to the problem
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DfE launches review into how MATs will be held to account
Review to set out new standards for multi-academy trusts as well as threshold for government to intervene
Secondary teacher trainees nearly a fifth below pre-Covid level
Latest figures show a deteriorating picture in the number of people being placed on teacher-training courses
Call for nursery school funding shake-up amid closure fears
More than a fifth of maintained nurseries face closure within three years owing to stretched budgets, survey suggests
Order schools to track racist bullying data, DfE told
Steps need to be taken to prevent discrimination and encourage 'inclusive education' and 'belonging' in schools, say researchers
ÌÇÐÄVlog’ 10 questions with...Chris Smith
The award-winning maths teacher talks about why his subject is 'beautiful'
No regular music lessons in over third of secondaries
New data from Teacher Tapp comes after Ofsted said KS3 students should receive 'regular, unbroken' music teaching
MPs told schools should receive a ‘yearly safeguarding audit’
Experts warn there is no 'clear guidance for schools about how to manage' incidents of misogyny and abuse
Government to miss target for setting up Gaelic schools
The goal was to establish 10 standalone Gaelic schools by next year but Bòrd na Gà idhlig says that target will be missed
Plan for supply teachers to cover strikes ‘doesn’t add up’, Zahawi told
A supply teachers' leader has written to the education secretary, dismissing the idea that supply teachers would cover teachers on strike
National music plan ‘impossible’ to achieve, DfE warned
Primary school leaders say the government music education plan requires more cash, while experts question DfE costings
Covid: ‘Significantly’ fewer primary pupils to be vaccinated
Figures show rise in primary school parents 'unlikely' to have their child vaccinated against Covid, as UK enters fifth wave
ITT: University of Cambridge submits application
But the university said it could withdraw its teacher training application at a later stage if its concerns are not fully addressed
Are school faculties only good for saving money?
New research finds teachers' views of faculties are ‘damning’, sparking call for schools to ‘revert to subject-based leadership’
Sats 2022: Call for ‘thorough review’ amid fears about marking
Exclusive: Heads urge government to review the operation of this year's Sats as concerns are raised by markers
National categorisation of schools to end in Wales
Schools will no longer be colour coded depending on their performance – but inspection is to become more frequent
Schools get £25m for instruments under new music plan
Government announces a new national plan for music education and extra funding for competitive sport in schools
DfE starts talks with sector over Oak quango plans
Exclusive: Discussions will begin next week over how the new national arm's-length curriculum body will operate
Miss tutoring form deadline and we’ll reclaim cash, DfE tells heads
Schools that receive school-led tutoring funding as part of the NTP have been warned that they must submit an end of year statement by 16 September
Revealed: schools’ ‘soul-destroying’ bids to fix broken buildings
Hundreds of schools have repeatedly missed out in their applications for funding to repair rundown buildings, while others have enjoyed much more success. But why? ÌÇÐÄVlog investigates
Warning over ‘knee jerk’ response to fix ECF
Exclusive: Allow schools and trusts involved in Early Career Framework delivery to build on first-year learning, says leader
No schools managed to switch energy using government service in 2022
Exclusive: The government's School Switch platform closed in March – but no school successfully switched energy using it after December 2021
Zahawi labels GCSE poetry changes as ‘cultural vandalism’
The removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE poetry anthology was criticised by the education secretary
Pupils getting into first choice school at highest level in years
The proportion of secondary school applicants who received an offer from their first preference school increased to 83.3 per cent, while the figure was 92.2 per cent at primary level
Zahawi: Teacher strike would be ‘unforgivable’
Teachers going on strike over pay would cause further disruption to pupils' education after the pandemic, the education secretary says