As the cost of living crisis rages and CPI inflation hits 10%, a quarter of England’s secondary schools will see their notional per-pupil funding for 2023/24 increase by less than 1%.

School leaders are demanding clarity on the future of policies such as the “parent pledge” and the 32.5-hour school week following the axing of the Schools Bill.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed the concerning extent to which middle and senior leaders are quitting our schools. The revelations have increased pressure on the Department for Education ...

More than 35,000 children living in poverty in the North East of England are not eligible for free school meals (FSM) under current rules.

With no Progress 8, we can embrace student, staff and parental voice to make schools places we all want to be ...

Teachers are now working an average of 57 hours a week thanks to more time being spent on pastoral care, administration, data, and assessment.

A student loan reimbursement scheme could boost teacher retention to the tune of around 2,100 teachers a year, a study has suggested.

In the Back to the Future trilogy, whenever the oversized bully Biff Tannen demands "thinking", he repeatedly raps his victim, the hapless George McFly, on the head with his closed fist as if he were ...

The cost-of-living crisis and the attendance challenges emerging after the pandemic are high priorities for all schools. SecEd’s annual vulnerable learners supplement offers practical, expert insights ...

From the outset of the pandemic experts have been predicting a surge in so-called “deaths of despair” (Case & Deaton, 2017): deaths from substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide. Early on, there was ...

Schools cannot ‘teach’ their way out of educational inequality because poverty is not just a problem for education, it is a problem for society as a whole. Poverty researcher Sean Harris says we need ...

When we seek to develop teachers’ digital skills, we too often focus only on cognisance and fail to develop both competence and confidence. Dr Fiona Aubrey-Smith advises ...