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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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Phillipson wants to turn around tutoring ‘disaster’

Labour's shadow education secretary tells conference event she wants to explore how tailored support can help children recover from lost learning

Governors call for long-term school staff pay plan

The National Governance Association sets out an education manifesto to tackle the big issues raised by governors at schools across the country

DfE announces £196m to recruit more teachers

But headteachers' leaders warn that focus is also needed on retaining teachers

Labour still ‘working on’ how to recruit 6,500 more teachers

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Bridget Phillipson also said Gillian Keegan has become a 'one-woman attack ad factory'

DfE’s funding blunder: everything you need to know

Late last week, the government revealed it had made a mistake in its school funding calculations for next year. But what does this mean for schools, councils and trusts?

Call for maximum 35-hour week for teachers

Union wants a 'New Deal for Teachers' including 'real-terms pay restoration' and action to cut workload and improve teacher-pupil ratios

Edinburgh teacher wins award for antiracism work

Hardeep Kaur has led staff training showing the impact of microaggressions and the importance of correctly pronouncing the names of BAME learners

Labour: ‘Dreaded’ Ofsted inspections ‘ineffective’

Ofsted is exacerbating the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, says shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell at Labour's annual conference

Labour ready for ‘fight’ over RAAC and private school taxes

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Labour Party conference that Rishi Sunak can 'bring it on' if he wants a fight over which party has more aspiration for children

Teachers to join DfE’s AI workload reduction trial

The government is holding a 'hackathon' to allow schools to experiment with artificial intelligence in areas such as lesson planning and exam marking

Unions set to question DfE over school funding error

It comes after the NEU's Daniel Kebede said that there were 'grounds to reopen' the teacher pay and funding dispute

Teachers ‘must be protected from policy pendulum swings’

The next government needs to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' with education policy, National Institute of Teaching chief tells the Labour Party conference

Remove all asbestos within 40 years, teaching unions warn

A coalition of trade unions is calling for the material, which has been linked to cancer, to be removed from all public buildings, including schools

SEND support celebrated at Nasen Awards

Schools, teachers, pupils and organisations all honoured at annual awards party in Birmingham

DfE apologises over error in school funding calculation

Gillian Keegan has ordered a formal review after her department revealed a mistake in the national funding formula allocations for schools for 2024-25