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Ministers urged to attend crunch talks to avoid Oak legal action

Government talks with BESA and other bodies bringing a judicial review over Oak National Academy have not yet found a way to halt the legal action, Tes understands

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Rise in illness absence due to anxiety

School leaders have called for the government to redouble efforts to address growing pupil mental health problem since pandemic

Heads ‘deflated’ after DfE funding email error

The Department for Education has apologised to several academy trusts after mistakenly telling them they were eligible to apply for a school building fund

DfE strike plan ‘a hostile attack’ on teachers’ rights

Unions react with anger after Gillian Keegan warns that the DfE could introduce minimum service levels for schools to curb strike disruption

Breaking: Keegan urges unions to engage over minimum service levels

Education secretary has told unions DfE will introduce minimum service levels in schools if voluntary agreement is not reached

CST appoints Sir Hamid Patel as chair

Star Academies chief takes on role after serving on the Confederation of School Trusts board since September 2019 

Scottish teachers are ‘overworked and underpaid’, EIS tells UN

The union says ‘national action’ is needed on teacher workload, lack of preparation time and pay restoration

10 questions with... John Camp

The new ASCL president tells Tes how his own school experience has driven his career and underpins his philosophy of 'ambitious and optimistic education for all'

3 in 4 Reception teachers find baseline test ‘unhelpful’

Only a tiny minority of teachers think the Reception Baseline Assessment provides accurate information, a poll finds

NTP improved progress but only when led by schools

Review of the second year of the National Tutoring Programme shows that only 35 per cent of Year 11 students selected were from disadvantaged backgrounds

Keegan: ‘Fortune’ spent on ‘lose-lose’ SEND situation

Education secretary Gillian Keegan describes SEND as being in a 'lose-lose-lose situation' with the Treasury, councils and service users all dissatisfied

Sharp rise in severe pupil absence and unauthorised holiday

The number of pupils missing 50 per cent or more sessions in the autumn and spring terms last year was up by a quarter on 2021-22, new figures show

Primary pupil numbers to plummet by 410k in five years

Decreasing pupil numbers are already beginning to impact school budgets, warns union leader

‘No end in sight’ to RAAC saga, warns union leader

The DfE confirms 43 more schools with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete as Labour brands the situation a 'shambles'

Weekly round-up: New KS4 data and online GCSEs

This week’s essential education news includes new key stage 4 performance data revealing a bigger disadvantage gap, one exam board's plan to take GCSEs online, and a 'hostile attack' on teachers' rights

214 schools now confirmed to have RAAC

Twelve schools found to contain the potentially dangerous concrete are still having to provide a mix of face-to-face and remote learning