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Headteachers' leaders urge government to restore local authority funding for community services, or risk leaving schools to ‘pick up the pieces’

Ten regional partnerships led by research schools aim to improve teaching and drive attainment among poorer pupils

But report warns that post-16 study of maths in this country only caters for a 'small elite group', meaning many proficient students drop the subject

Research also warns against making key stage 2 tests 'too long' so they're largely assessments of reading speed

Scottish government officials say a number of universities are ‘very interested’ in hosting the new centre, which has been described by school leaders as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘costly’

Teachers are unsure about the ability of AI to cut their workload, a report finds – as the government spends millions on developing AI tools for schools

Government could use money saved through falling pupil rolls to provide extra funding for students who are long-term disadvantaged, says EPI report

Exclusions and suspensions have increased again year on year, new analysis suggests

An international schools group plans to use thinking routines – a series of steps to help students think more deeply – so that teachers can improve life skills

News comes after fewer than one in five new primary teachers in Scotland secured a permanent job after probation last year

Child Poverty Action Group is calling for an urgent review of the free school meal threshold, after revealing the extent of school dinner debt incurred by schools

Guidance on restraint and seclusion in Scottish schools focuses on prevention – but union says teachers and school leaders will 'despair' at lack of practical guidance

Leora Cruddas, CEO of the Confederation of School Trusts, tells MAT leaders they have embraced mission to educate disadvantaged pupils

Inspectorate must move away from 'detecting failures only', Sir Martyn Oliver tells MAT leaders at the Confederation of School Trusts' conference

School leaders should devise programmes to ensure underrepresented students can see a way into Stem careers, say EPI and CfEY

Curriculum reforms offer a chance to boost the status of language teaching in schools, but there's a risk they could do the opposite, say subject experts

Sir Kevan Collins tells the Confederation of School Trusts' conference that 'we’ve sometimes slipped into a shallow compliance culture'

The digital world's effect on social contact has 'huge' ramifications for educators, says ADES president

School leaders say they need help as rising numbers of students ask for special arrangements to sit GCSEs and A levels

Fears mount over future of instrument tuition in Scotland after a move that puts music education for younger pupils 'at risk'

Creators of a school equity scorecard hope Ofsted will adopt the approach when its new inspections get underway next year

Study shows pupils are comfortable with ‘driving’ and interacting with seeing and hearing robots, which allow their peers to be virtually present for school activities

Education secretary unveils a raft of measures aimed at making mainstream schools more inclusive, including SEND advisers and a neurodiversity task group

Many multi-academy trust boards have diversity policies that have not yet translated into reality, according to analysis by the Confederation of School Trusts