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Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class childrenBridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricul…
Children across the UK have been shouting out ‘six-seven’ during lessons. How are teachers reacting?Across the UK, school pupils have been shouting out the words “six-seven” during lessons in the latest meme-based craze to sweep through classrooms.Whil…
Children with special educational needs more than twice as likely to be put in isolation, say Manchester researchers‘Publicly humiliated’: parents describe difficulty of children’s isolation at schoolOne in 12 secondary pupils report being put into sch…
Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’Getting paid £180,000 a year to tutor a single child might sound like a dream job but there’s a catch: the child is only o…
Becky Francis says pupils condemned to retaking maths and English face ‘blocks to progress’ and system needs overhaulThe requirement that children who fail GCSE maths and English must repeatedly resit the exams is too inflexible and needs to be overhau…
One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answersPupils fear that using artificial intelligence is eroding their ability to study, with many complaining it makes schoolwork “too easy” and others saying it limits their creativity …
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls educationNigel Farage has claimed teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK election win, and accused them of “poisoning our k…
Recruitment report identifies sharp rise in vacancies for warehouse staff and cleaners but large fall in graduate opportunitiesEditorial: AI and jobs: tech revolution should be for the many not the fewGraduates fresh from university will find it diffic…
Michael Bene is repaying £763 ‘advance’ despite evidence he did not attend face-to-face verification interviewA special needs teacher has spent almost a year trying to clear his name after a fraudulent universal credit claim was made using his identity…
Current and retired staff complain about delays, backlogs and poor communication at Teachers’ PensionsTeachers who retired this summer have been left waiting for pension payments they were supposed to receive at the start of September, with some saying…