2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (259+ words) Andrew O'Neill is staying on for another year as the Department for Education's school policy adviser, Tes can reveal. Mr O'Neill, headteacher at All Saints Catholic College in West London, was first seconded last June to provide "frontline expertise" to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (573+ words) Almost one in five senior leaders in primary schools have had to ask a parent to stop vaping on the premises this year, polling reveals. The findings come as the government is considering legal changes that would make it illegal…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (560+ words) At the NSPCC we think all children and young people in Scotland have a right to receive consistent, relevant, inclusive and age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP) education. Yet Scotland is the only part of the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (716+ words) In the middle of a devastating war, education in Ukraine is undergoing fundamental reform. With support from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and other international partners, schools are shifting from content-heavy curricula to emphasising applied skills, critical thinking…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (783+ words) Independent review panels (IRPs) need to be given powers to reinstate excluded pupils to address a "power imbalance" in the system, a charity has warned. The Coram Children's Legal Centre (CCLC) today published research showing that tens of thousands of children…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (755+ words) MPs have urged the government to enforce a statutory ban on social media for children under 16, arguing that technology companies cannot be relied upon to self-regulate. The consultation on access to social media for young people, which closes next week,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (315+ words) International school group Globeducate has announced the acquisition of Colegio Peleteiro in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. The all-through school (pictured), which delivers the Spanish national curriculum and was founded in 1951, caters for a total of 1, 300 students. The school…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (704+ words) The government is set to fall "significantly short" of its target to open or expand 3, 000 new school-based nurseries, researchers have found. A report from the Sutton Trust charity indicates that the appetite for new nurseries in schools that do not…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (784+ words) Headteachers" leaders have warned that the new individual support plans being proposed for pupils with special educational needs risk becoming "light EHCPs" and adding to the bureaucracy in the system. The warning comes in the NAHT school leaders" union"s…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (693+ words) Supporting attendance is a perennial challenge in education. It's one that has come into sharper focus since the pandemic and was most recently highlighted in the government's White Paper. Persistent absence continues to disproportionately affect disadvantaged pupils, making it a…...