Feb 13 2026 | News
New analysis finds increase in teachers saying they spend ‘too much time’ dealing with behaviour Increased time spent dealing with pupil behaviour and providing pastoral support plays a significant role in teachers choosing to leave the profession, according to new...
Feb 6 2026 | News
A majority of teachers support reducing the role of education, health & care plans (EHCPs) and investing in alternative models of support, new research suggests. A new briefing by the Social Market Foundation (SMF), with polling provided by Teacher Tapp, assesses...
Feb 6 2026 | News
The government is ‘particularly keen’ to see more male teachers enter the profession, an education minister has said. The early education minister, Olivia Bailey MP, was speaking in a Westminster debate on educational outcomes for disadvantaged boys and young men. The...
Jan 30 2026 | News
Trials of AI ‘tutoring tools’ are to begin later this year, with the government saying ‘up to 450,000’ children from disadvantaged backgrounds could benefit in the long term. The government will be running a tender for industry to co-create AI tutoring tools with...
Jan 30 2026 | News
The government is set to encourage schools to make greater use of internal suspensions, via new behaviour guidance. Under the planned guidance, which will likely be included in the upcoming schools white paper, schools will be encouraged to only send pupils home for...
Jan 23 2026 | News
The publication of an annual survey has again seen an increase in the proportion of children who are not considered ‘school ready’. The School Readiness Survey, conducted for the sixth year by the early years charity Kindred Squared, surveyed over 1000 teachers and...
