Mobile phones in schools
The Education Secretary would do better facing up to the real challenges in our schools, rather than distracting attention from them.
The Education Secretary would do better facing up to the real challenges in our schools, rather than distracting attention from them.
Government ministers claim improved reading ability among primary pupils is down to a prescriptive approach to how to teach children to read. But, as Dominic Wyse reveals, the facts behind the figures paint quite a different picture.
Support staff play a vital role in schools. The fact that they are leaving impacts schools and their pupils.
Schools' efforts to close the gap for pupils are not matched by government support.
Headline figures on education funding do not translate into funding increases per pupil for schools.
Headline-seeking announcements are no substitute for doing the hard work fixing the major challenges facing education.
Coalition of Trade Unions calling for the removal of asbestos from all public buildings within the next 40 years
Labour is recognising that little can be achieved without working with, and in partnership, with teachers.
Education unions call on Government to restore £370m NFF funding
We need to see a true step-change in the levels of education investment.
The NEU stands in solidarity with all those - Israeli and Palestinian - suffering the impact of horrific violence.
Commenting on Making it Click, a report from AQA which makes a case for moving to digital exams, Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the National Education Union.