Picture of wooden people next to tick box.

The National Education Union (NEU), at a meeting held this week, has agreed to go ahead with a preliminary online ballot of teacher members in England.

A new report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) finds that in the last 12 months over £400 million of apprenticeship funding has been spent on young people and adults who already have a degree.

Just over half of school leavers remembered learning about climate change in their final year, according to DfE's 2024 Climate Literacy Survey.

Some of the measures included in the Bill include the introduction of registers for children not in school and allocating a unique identifying number for every child.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has reminded parents and carers of the small changes they can make to ensure their children have a healthy start to the new year and a new school term.

Former schools minister for the Conservative government Nick Gibb has been knighted in the new year’s honours, while former union leader Geoff Barton received a CBE.

The Education Committee has launched a new inquiry focused on finding solutions to the crisis in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision.

Young boy with his hand raised in a classroom.

Ofsted has published its first monitoring report on the 132 commitments made in the Big Listen, as well as the response to Dame Christine Gilbert’s independent learning review.

Children make robots.

This week, children of all ages visited Sellafield’s Engineering Centre of Excellence in Cumbria this week to learn about Sellafield’s work and explore their own potential and interest in engineering.

Teacher holds up Scottish flag to children.

Thanks to £53.4 million investment from the Scottish government, first minister John Swinney has opened two new schools in Dunfermline, Fife.

Woman teaching English to a classroom

The Scottish government has provided Glasgow ESOL Partnership with £500,000 to benefit refugees, people seeking asylum, and other forced migrants with speaking English. 

Woman completing online training

Ofsted has published three more recordings of school inspector training materials, after the first collection was published earlier this term.

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