Jan 23 2026 | News
An AI pilot programme is to be expanded, as the government announced a range of measures aimed at boosting the effective use of AI and technology in education. Speaking earlier this week to delegates at the Bett Show – an EdTech conference – education secretary...
Jan 16 2026 | News
A major teaching union has called for the government to ban access to social media platforms for children and young people under 16, to ‘prevent further damage to mental health and improve concentration and learning in school’. A meeting of the NASUWT’s national...
Jan 16 2026 | News
The government has announced £200million of funding for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) training, which it says will be available to ‘all teaching staff’. The SEND code of practice will also be updated with an expectation that all staff in ‘every...
Jan 9 2026 | News
From this summer GCSE students will be able to access their results via a new government app. However, pupils will still go into school on results day to meet face-to-face with their teachers and receive their results, with those results then subsequently being...
Jan 9 2026 | News
Ofsted inspections of Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) could begin as soon as next year, after education secretary Bridget Phillipson tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would enable them. At the last election the government had...
