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DfE sets out £800m SEND teacher development contracts

The government’s spending plans could include the creation of national SEND CPD programmes, with contracts expected to be awarded to providers next year

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DfE ‘robs’ schools of £1.9bn for crumbling buildings, say unions

School Cuts coalition calculates schools could have an extra £36,000 each on average if the DfE distributed unspent capital funds

Scottish students to be questioned about use of AI

Teaching AI literacy in schools is ‘so important’ – but the first step is understanding how students are already using artificial intelligence, says research lead

DfE to spend nearly £5m researching risks of older school buildings

The project will use artificial intelligence to learn about 'defects' associated with different types of buildings

Students in England less likely to say creativity is valued

England's 15-year-olds are also less likely than their international peers to feel able to express their ideas at school, according to major study

Scotland absent from first Pisa report on creative thinking

New data suggests Scottish teachers are doing a good job of encouraging creative thinking – but the government's decision to opt out of new Pisa test means evidence is limited

Sexual harassment and sexism ‘rife’, say support staff

Union findings come as support staff are told to reject pay offer of up to 5.77 per cent

GCSEs: Deprived schools worst hit by teacher absence

Challenges facing this year's GCSE exams cohort are significantly higher in disadvantaged schools, findings suggest

International school leaders issue policy pleas to next government

Education leaders on the ÌÇÐÄVlog Global Advisory Board call for action to support the UK international school sector's continued growth

Schools cut trips and activities to tackle pupil poverty

A third of primary schools are now offering a food bank and many staff are using their own money to help struggling families, a charity report shows

Most teachers consider leaving due to Ofsted stress

Majority of teachers believe the watchdog has a 'negative impact' on teaching and want it abolished, a poll shows

More schools train mental health ‘triage’ staff amid ‘crisis’

Rise in teachers who report their school has recruited emotional literacy support assistants as more heads say they "can't afford to wait" for help

New CEO hired to lead 31-school White Horse Federation

Dr Dan Nicholls, currently deputy CEO at Cabot Learning Federation, will take up new role from September

Weekly round-up: The education battle lines are drawn

ÌÇÐÄVlog' essential education news round-up includes the three main political parties setting out their policies for schools ahead of next month's election

Biggest rise in EHCPs since pandemic

New data shows an increase in the number of education, health and care plans and requests for assessments at a time when funding is being squeezed

Funding crisis ‘will increase class sizes’ in most schools

One head in an ASCL poll warns that the only thing left to cut is teaching staff after 'paring everything back to the bone'

Most bullying in secondary ‘linked to sexuality or gender’

School leaders believe their staff need 'increased confidence' in handling bullying incidents, according to a DfE-funded report

Key policy of rooting music tuition in education at risk, warns union

Council urged to abandon plans to put its instrumental music service in an arm’s-length body, amid fears the plans could have Scotland-wide ramifications

Revealed: The most popular education policies for voters

Analysis shows strong support for hiring more teachers and increasing apprenticeships but a negative response to dropping single-word Ofsted judgements

Glasgow teachers to take industrial action over job cuts

EIS members in Glasgow vote heavily in favour of taking in favour of action that could result in strikes

Conservatives’ education policies: all you need to know

The Conservative Party pledges to make guidance on banning mobile phones statutory and to protect 'day-to-day' per pupil spending on schools

Real-terms cuts to schools in Wales laid bare by new data

Education bodies and unions collectively call for all political parties to commit to a plan to invest the funding needed to eradicate all school cuts

Liberal Democrats’ education policies: all you need to know

Lib Dems pledge to make teacher pay fully funded and independent, and to cut the amount schools pay towards education, health and care plans

Schools under ‘severe strain’, ASCL warns party leaders

Spending money on managing SEND deficits rather than meeting children's needs is a situation 'close to madness', says the union

Labour: Breakfast clubs plan ‘could cut half a million days of absence’

Labour sets out plan to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries