This took a long , long time to put together and it was great to see the (largely) sensible debate it prompted over the month after it was published a few months back. The scientific debate is still where it was, but the cultural debate has certainly become even more polarised.

Excl: Ofsted tells inspectors to use Word documents to record inspection evidence as its electronic system continues to malfunction. It's part of a long-running saga of failings in its digital evidence gathering, which sees live data crash and freeze mid-inspection: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

🔍 Exclusive: Ofsted inspectors will record evidence on Word documents as the watchdog's electronic evidence gathering system continues to malfunction

While Sats scores are improving overall, the number of children who are deemed unable to take the KS2 tests is increasing. @cerysturner.bsky.social investigates this widening gap

Chemistry curricula in UK schools do not reflect the realities of working in science, @rsc.org researchers warn

The Treasury has been accused of 'picking a fight with the teaching profession' by refusing to provide additional funding for teacher pay

Most teachers have had at least one homeless child at their school in the past year, according to @sheltercharity.bsky.social research, which also highlights the impact of homelessness on pupil attainment

One of the UK’s biggest exam boards has been fined more than £2 million for three ‘serious breaches’ that ‘affected tens of thousands of students’, says Ofqual

Google is working with the DfE on developing an AI chatbot to help teachers in classrooms in England

There will be no extra money for next year's teacher pay award, the Treasury has confirmed, meaning the DfE would have to fund any award from existing budgets

Falling pupil numbers have led to calls for a complete overhaul to the way schools are funded. But would the alternatives be any better? Brilliant analysis of the different options by @jabedahmed.bsky.social:

Last week the government indicated that creating more specialist places in mainstream can bring down SEND spending but sector leaders and heads have warned that this won't deliver significant savings in the short term and needs more than just capital funding. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

For anyone wondering, no, the government will not be providing any additional investment for digital exams. This is despite the chief regulator himself warning that schools had "weak" IT infrastructure...

"My view is that England should have no more than 400 trusts and that we should try to achieve this by 2030" Agree with him or not, this is very thought-provoking indeed from Mark McCourt - many in policy circles do agree, but tend to whisper it... www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

@henryhepburn.bsky.social Your ASN article today is scary. Education is multi factorial but I wonder how much of this increase can be assigned to a poor curriculum?

If we want an academy trust system that works for pupils, staff and the taxpayer, we need to drastically reduce trust numbers, suggests @markmccourt.bsky.social

The English school system is awash with attendance data, but is the government using it responsibly – and does it tell us as much as we hope it can? @ellencph.bsky.social with an excellent deep dive analysis on attendance this morning - read below www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Pre-school-aged children are ‘being fed algorithms designed to hook adults’, warns former education minister after research suggests more than 800,000 children aged 3 to 5 have used social media

Trust-wide subject networks can be powerful sources of CPD, if you avoid the pitfalls, says Tracy Goodyear of @trustcpdleads.bsky.social

How a major international school in Thailand embraced risky play to help young pupils overcome post-pandemic nervousness

‘Calm Leadership doesn’t mean you won’t feel pressure; it means you’ll learn to hold your shape when it comes,’ says head Patrick Cozier as he explains how to adopt this ethos

The use of assistive technology in schools has risen significantly – but almost half of teachers have not received training in it, government report finds

Without a clear curriculum, knowledge is forgotten, habits don’t shift and progress stalls – and this is just as true for teachers’ learning as it is for pupils’, writes Mark Enser

What are international schools doing to nurture a sense of belonging among students of different nationalities? @emmaseith.bsky.social shares key insights from the COBIS conference on inclusion and belonging

“You mark your own homework. It’s not checked.” Safeguarding leads warn the “onerous” audits that schools have to submit to councils aren’t improving student safety and duplicate work done by trusts. Is it time to drop them? Excl by @ktorm-social1.bsky.social

Parent allegations against teachers have risen by a third in just one year, according to data shared exclusively with @tesmagazine.bsky.social Story from @cerysturner.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Follow @tesmagazine.bsky.social school funding reporter @jabedahmed.bsky.social for the latest on today's Budget 👇

THREAD: SEND costs to hit central government budgets The cost of SEND support will shift entirely onto central government from 2028, and the OBR warns the DfE has no plan for how to pay for it, according to the OBR's Economic and fiscal outlook, published in error.

OBR documents (somehow!) published ahead of the Budget announcement say all SEND provision costs are to fall within DfE spending limits by 2028-29 and warn that if this is fully funded within the core schools budget, this implies a 1.7 per cent fall in mainstream school spending per pupil.

Are these the 16 things all children should do before they leave school? One assistant principal explains how her school gives every student 16 core enrichment experiences

The ‘hero leader’ mindset is putting pupil outcomes at risk, warns a new report calling for a more collaborative approach to school leadership. Read more below:

NEW: Teacher contact time plans include assemblies, tech and timetabling www.tes.com/magazine/new...

🇺🇸 ‘Teachers chanting times tables to pop hits, confetti filling the air and pupils cheering as they raced to answer questions in relay teams’: one MAT leader explains what he learned from US schools’ approach to motivating pupils

🌏 Could more state schools look at launching schools overseas to bolster their finances? 'Don’t expect Grange Hill Singapore any time soon,’ one leader tells @emmaseith.bsky.social

🇵🇪 What’s it like working in Peru, the third-largest country in South America? Four international school leaders and teachers share their views – from behaviour and safeguarding to culture, travel and lifestyle

Resourced bases are expected to be a key element of the govt's drive for a more inclusive mainstream school system but some leaders have warned they can actually result in "exclusion in its worst sense." www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Teachers are supplying pupils in poverty with food, clothing and equipment, according to an @neunion.bsky.social poll – with nearly two-thirds providing additional support every month

NEW: Reduced class contact time measures announced in Scotland www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Teachers should ‘whinge more’ and schools have not been 'thanked enough' for how much they have been asked to take on, @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social tells heads

🌍 Leaders at six international school groups talk to @emmaseith.bsky.social about how they manage teacher quality and outcomes across multiple countries, curricula and time zones

Education staff wellbeing has dropped to its lowest since 2019, Education Support data shows, with more than a third at risk of clinical depression

📈 The DfE spent more than £200,000 on influencer marketing from April to October this year, exclusive data obtained by Tes reveals

📹 ‘Videos allow parents to see leadership in action and to understand our educational philosophy’: one international school leader says recording weekly video updates has improved parent engagement

Exclusive: More than a third of teachers who run enrichment activities do so outside of directed time and without pay, according to research that raises doubts over the DfE’s drive for schools to run more extracurricular clubs

Health and wellbeing 'underpins everything', says School Leaders Scotland president Pauline Walker www.tes.com/magazine/new...

NEW: Scottish teachers get ‘certainty’ over pay for two years www.tes.com/magazine/new... @eisunion.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social

An international head offers 5 ways leaders can use AI to save time and improve workflows – from project management to tips for difficult conversations

Headteachers' leaders have called for schools who have volunteered to be the first to be inspected by Ofsted to be allowed to withdraw over concerns about changes in the way the watchdog will use data in new inspections. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Most markers of SQA papers think the work does not pay enough, a survey has found - markers find the work useful but complain of being 'undervalued' www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Qualifications ‘explosion’ shows CfE is working, education secretary Jenny Gilruth tells ADES annual conference www.tes.com/magazine/new...