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Stephen Morgan also highlights schools moving to more flexible term times in debate on fines for unauthorised absence

Former inspector expresses ‘sadness’ for heads whose schools were inspected before the steep climb in top ratings

Next week’s Scottish Budget will decide whether key education policies succeed, states the EIS in a letter seeking assurances from the first minister and the finance secretary

School leaders tend to operate in connected ‘communities’ – leaving thousands of schools missing out on leadership expertise, research warns

The schools’ inspectorate should speak ‘truth to power’, former Ofsted chief inspector tells conference on the future of inspection in Scotland

In response to the review’s call for evidence, sector organisations recommend changes to assessments and the scrapping of performance measures

Local government ombudsman wants powers to investigate exclusions and how EHCPs are implemented in schools

Experienced teachers need to be given the ‘time and capacity’ to give more support to new entrants to the profession, says Scotland’s teaching watchdog

The government wants more pupils with SEND to be supported in mainstream schools, but most teachers say their training did not equip them to meet these children’s needs

Schools with high levels of deprivation benefitted more from the government’s behaviour hubs scheme, official evaluation shows

Best Practice Network – one of the current providers of the Early Career Framework – has not been awarded a new contract, Tes understands

Independent schools could also ‘struggle’ with teacher pay as a result of the tax, sector leaders tell the Schools and Academies Show