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Teachers to get 5.5% pay rise

The government has accepted the independent pay body’s recommendations on teacher pay for 2024-25

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Bridget Phillipson to meet with unions as ‘priority’

Department for Education also says it will expand the national teacher recruitment campaign but has not set out any details

IB results 2024: UK students beat global average again

International Baccalaureate results are out – here's how students performed in the UK and around the world

MAT chief: ‘Mistake’ to assume academies were a ‘silver bullet’

A former DfE adviser also tells the Festival of Education that the Labour government will have to 'tackle a bunch of questions' about the academy system despite its 'agnostic' stance on school structure

Labour urged to back national governor recruitment drive

The National Governance Association said the DfE had found money for a governor recruitment drive before the election was called

Read: Bridget Phillipson’s opening speech to the DfE

The new education secretary has given her first speech in the role to the department she will now lead – read it here in full

Weekly round-up: What will Labour mean for schools?

This week's Tes round-up focuses on Labour's plans for education, the challenges the new government must overcome and the reaction from the sector to a historic election victory

Keegan among former education ministers to lose in election

Former education secretaries and ministers voted out as Conservative Party suffer historic election defeat

Workload concerns flagged in SQA trial of exam script access

A small trial giving Scottish schools access to marked papers last year found ‘almost all’ had concerns about workload – but schools also welcomed the ‘learning opportunity’

12 questions for the new Labour government on education

Tes takes a closer look at the gaps in the new Labour government's manifesto pledges for schools

Labour’s education policy: what schools can expect

The new government has pledged to hire teachers in shortage subjects, replace Ofsted grades and ensure schools are inclusive for pupils with SEND

General election: what are the 3 main parties’ education policies?

With polling stations open today, we look at the main political parties' plans for schools if they win power

All schools ‘should be ordered to offer ITT places’

Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT

Maths schools miss launch target amid site struggle

Election purdah has deepened delays to specialist maths schools programme, trust leader warns

Maths teachers lack subject-specific training, EEF finds

An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights 'plateauing' in attainment after secondary transition

Sir Kevan Collins ‘agnostic’ about school structures

Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be 'faced down'