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Bridget Phillipson unveils £2,400 payment for newly qualified teachers who remain in post for two yearsLabour will unveil its education offer this week with a promise to pay new teachers a £2,400 retention bonus and pledge to cut billions spent on agen…
Social and economic upheaval since the pandemic has resulted in many more families strugglingThe reasons for increased levels of pupil absence in England are multiple and complex. Some were an issue before the Covid pandemic closed schools and disrupte…
Bold Girls Ken seek youth-led changes in curriculum to help children understand concept earlierEvery young person should know what consent looks and feels like, online and offline, according to a group of Perthshire teenagers who are pioneering a youth…
Headteachers say situation is critical as they try to fill vacancies for September‘Trying to find a maths or science teacher is like looking for a unicorn’: inside English schools’ recruitment crisisSchools in England are struggling to recruit English …
Sir Michael Wilshaw says he now thinks differently about use of one-word headline grades in EnglandThe former chief inspector of schools in England Sir Michael Wilshaw has said Ofsted’s style of school inspections needs to change after the death of the…
Chief inspector says up to government to change system despite outcry over suicide of head whose school was downgradedScrapping single-word gradings for schools would not alleviate the “underlying discomfort” teachers feel, Ofsted’s chief inspector has…
Department for Education survey finds that 40,000 – almost 9% of workforce – left state schools in 2021-22 before retirement Teachers in England are abandoning their profession in record numbers, according to official figures, with Labour claiming that…
Poll of primary teachers finds pupils more likely to complain about being bored and provoke others in classMost primary schoolteachers think children’s attention spans are getting shorter and classroom behaviour has deteriorated since before the Covid …
Principal of high-performing sixth form said two forms are ‘deeply unequal’ and diminish womenTeachers at a leading sixth form will no longer answer to “Sir” and “Miss”, because they’re “deeply unequal” and feed into a view of the world that diminishes…
Former teacher says learning classical rhetoric can help pupils become better communicatorsIt has been employed for thousands of years, taking in everything from Julius Caesar writing veni, vidi, vici (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) to Bruce Forsyth gre…