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The 5.5% pay rise is ‘unlikely’ to improve recruitment and retention difficulties, warns the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Scotland should be ashamed of how children with additional support needs are treated in schools, MSPs tell education secretary

Around £10 million is needed to bring the technology at Scotland’s qualifications body up to date, says SQA chief executive – who blames its outdated IT systems for blank results-day emails

In her main party conference speech, the education secretary says new school-based nurseries will improve ‘life chances for children’

Professor Becky Francis warns that the current system is failing a third of pupils and says the review will focus on disadvantaged students

Minister Stephen Morgan’s comments come after Labour set out plans to pilot breakfast clubs in primary schools

Becks Boomer-Clark, CEO of Lift Schools, said the teaching profession must ‘have a much more mature, sophisticated and flexible understanding of time’

With the DfE’s curriculum and exam review set to call for evidence, Tes looks at the changes subject experts want to see

Responses will give overview of modern languages teaching in Scotland amid deep concerns over their place in school timetables

The Scottish Assembly of Parents and Carers starts its search for members today, months after funding was cut from another national parent body

NEU says schools ‘do not have the resources or staff to continue carrying the weight of a broken system’

Scientists Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Professor Brian Cox partner with the Royal Society to help teachers run practical experiments