8+ mon, 3+ day ago  (22+ words) The Department for Education has announced that Tom Bennett and Jayne Lowe have been appointed as its new behaviour and attendance ambassadors...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (430+ words) The deputy head of a school in the London Borough of Newham writes that efforts to improve children's mental health should be aligned with initiatives to address poverty and instability....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (221+ words) The government should create new national standards for alternative provision, says a report from the New Schools Network that warns of the risks of the government delaying new free school projects....

13+ hour, 3+ min ago  (1438+ words) The growing proportion of pupils being suspended from primary schools has sparked concern among education leaders about myriad factors driving this rise, including an "increasing complexity of need. The latest Department for Education data shows that secondary schools have slowed…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago  (703+ words) School leaders have paved the way towards industrial action over Ofsted's new inspection framework, after warning that "polite concern is not enough. Delegates at the NAHT school leaders' union annual conference in Belfast today unanimously backed a set of motions…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (372+ words) Whenever a colleague announces they are leaving, there is a flurry of well-wishes, a card, perhaps a carefully chosen leaving gift, and hopefully a fun leaving do. But somewhere between their final goodbye and the first week of the new…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (978+ words) This academic year, the number of teachers regularly using AI for work has tipped over from "large minority" into "majority", with 58 per cent telling Teacher Tapp they have used AI for work tasks in the last week. But that still…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago  (784+ words) Teaching maths in sets does not negatively impact disadvantaged students or low prior attainers, research has found. Researchers from UCL Institute for Education, on behalf of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), investigated the impact of different grouping practices in maths…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago  (556+ words) Digital literacy should not be optional and should be taught through subjects across the curriculum, according to the country's biggest exam board. In a report published today, AQA warns that although young people are digitally active, they are not consistently…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (235+ words) A council is trialling the use of artificial intelligence as a way of reducing long waits for education, health and care plans (EHCPs). Cambridgeshire County Council is inviting suppliers to create an AI-assisted EHCP solution, which it hopes will also…...