Enter a classroom in an affluent area and you are met by a cacophony of voices. Whether debating, reasoning or articulating ...

Small schools need accountability systems that distinguish between genuine underperformance and natural variance. But most urgently, we need a narrative shift. Small schools aren’t the system’s ...

Of course, safeguarding and data collection must be taken into account. Journal entries should focus on thoughts and feelings rather than records of confidential details, and references to pupils and ...

Speech and language challenges are now the largest single group of SEND needs in primary schools, and around two million ...

Almost £440,000 was spent supporting a merger that created one of England’s biggest MATs. Coast and Vale Learning Trust ...

Schools could be required to record internal exclusions under new guidance that will encourage headteachers to only send ...

Latest accounts for the Tenterden Schools Trust (TST) in Kent show it made the error as it entered into a settlement ...

More research is needed into the impact of AI tutoring for pupils, experts have warned after the government announced plans to trial it in England’s schools. Ministers said last week they will trial ...

Changes rolled out across 32 local authorities as part of a Tory-era SEND pilot have cut exclusions and kept more children in mainstream education, a report has found.

For 59 more proposed specialist settings, councils have a choice between proceeding as planned or taking a three-year, £50,000-per-pupil cash alternative to create new places in existing schools. This ...

Ministers have said schools should only suspend pupils in the most serious cases of poor behaviour and violence, as the ...

Ofsted has found “no evidence” to substantiate concerns about political impartiality at a school that postponed the visit of ...