Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found. In the latest...
New Department for Education guidance on parental complaints has urged families to ensure “clear, respectful communication” in a five-step process that says to avoid...
Ofsted will check every school’s policy on mobile phones during inspections and ministers will issue “tougher guidance for schools” on restricting the devices, the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) used in schools should look out for signs of “distress” in pupils and flag concerning behaviour to safeguarding leads, new government...
English lessons can fire imaginations and open minds, but the DfE should consider five points when implementing recommendations of the curriculum review, says Summer...
The abuse of headteachers over school phone bans is “completely unacceptable”, Bridget Phillipson told MPs last month. The education secretary was responding to reports...
Schools will be “at the heart” of ministers’ special educational needs reforms, the government’s strategic SEND adviser has said. Dame Christine Lenehan said the...
A government consultation on the broadening of its RISE school improvement teams’ remit has been delayed. RISE targeted support has only been given to...
Social mobility is commonly described and oversimplified as the opportunity to move up the socio-economic ladder. When successful, it can lead to improved educational...