The United Kingdom’s Department for Education (DfE) has now confirmed plans to “update” its own guidance on collective ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

He enjoyed the games and songs we used to remember words and phrases – but he had no concept of what “Mandarin” was, or the places and communities where it was spoken. For him, it was a lesson with ...

Historically attended by no less than 1000 senior leaders from the world of education, the twelfth Inspiring Leadership Conference will be held at the ICC in Birmingham on 4 and 5 June. Supported by ...