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The ASCL school leaders' union also appeals for GCSE reform and warns that students sit too many exams in summer term

Long-standing education minister says he is sad to be leaving his post

Running additional assessments would ‘place excess workload on teachers, lecturers and learners’, SQA says

Former vaccines minister named as head of Department for Education after Gavin Williamson sacked in Cabinet shake-up

ÌÇÐÄVlog looks at the outgoing education secretary’s tumultuous tenure

Your guide to schools' role in the latest Covid vaccination drive, with jabs offered to pupils aged 12 to 15

Williamson leaves DfE as Boris Johnson carries out cabinet reshuffle

Headteachers are being advised to get in touch with pupil vaccine team at ‘first opportunity’ to establish ‘what security planning they have in place’

What are the most common types of teacher bias? And how can we avoid it impacting judgements in assessments?

Amanda Spielman says parents should not feel threatened by register of children home educating

Heads welcome investment in sport but warn schools face competing demands from a 'crowded curriculum'

Ministers plan to relinquish powers to order closures while retaining the right to force schools to stay open

The first minister has also announced that face coverings will continue to be worn in schools until at least the October holidays

Committee chair accuses inspectorate of ‘chickening out’ of naming the problem in school reports

Robert Halfon says learning loss would not have been so extreme in first lockdown if Ofsted had been more proactive

Evaluations of multi-academy trusts will mirror inspection framework, with 12 planned for spring term

Ofsted chief says it was ‘less obvious to some’ schools early in the crisis that they should work on a ‘full’ remote learning offer

Scotland’s largest teaching union and children’s commissioner have both welcomed new advice to offer vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds

Headteachers say pay freeze is a ‘slap in the face’ and will weaken school leadership pipeline

School leaders’ union sets out vision for overhauling assessment, inspections and admissions

Funding changes and fewer qualifications behind the decline, say researchers

EXCLUSIVE: Education committee chairman raises concern over why Ofsted reports did not mention off-rolling by name

Heads urge campaigners to stop pressurising schools not to get involved in Covid vaccinations for pupils

School leaders say government guidance needed so they are not left 'facing questions to which they simply do not have the answers'