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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