Tes magazine

How effective is a zero-tolerance approach to vaping in schools? The chief education officer of @GEMS_ME reflects on the impact of its policy a year after implementation tes.com/magazine/leade…

The government’s focus on inclusion and oracy means that support for speech and language challenges will be a key focus for schools – and this free database on evidence-informed interventions can help, writes Megan Dixon tes.com/magazine/teach…

Tes investigates how falling pupil rolls are already having a significant impact on schools, including funding, staffing and classes tes.com/magazine/analy…

Professor Jessie Ricketts sets out the importance of secondary schools making reading a strategic priority, as she offers three freely available initiatives to help students tes.com/magazine/teach…

School leaders have unanimously backed calls for an indicative ballot on industrial action, warning that any multi-year pay deal worth less than inflation would be ‘unacceptable’ tes.com/magazine/news/…

Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. Here, education leaders tell Tes what they think is behind the contrasting trends tes.com/magazine/news/…

From the Reception Baseline Assessment to KS2 Sats, primary pupils take a range of assessments. Here’s what each involves, why it exists and how results compare nationally tes.com/magazine/analy…

School leaders at the @NAHTnews conference have paved the way towards industrial action over Ofsted’s new inspection framework, after warning that ‘polite concern is not enough’ tes.com/magazine/news/…

High-attaining maths students in Year 7 and Year 8 performed worse when taught in mixed-ability groups, according to EEF research tes.com/magazine/news/…

Schools with an above-average number of pupils with SEND are more likely to be marked down by Ofsted for attendance and behaviour, analysis finds tes.com/magazine/news/…

School leaders should not be left to ‘carry the can’ if the government’s White Paper plans fail because of a lack of funding, @PaulWhiteman6 tells the @NAHTnews annual conference #NAHTconf tes.com/magazine/news/…

With recruitment a challenge for international schools, what can leaders do? One policy some are adopting is holding ‘honest’, upfront conversations with applicants, finds @Emma_Seith tes.com/magazine/analy…

Excl: Secondary suspensions remain far higher than in primaries, but Autumn term data suggests secondaries have curbed the post‑Covid surge while primaries have not. Trust leaders, heads and DfE officials tell Tes what may explain this trend. @tes tes.com/magazine/news/…

When experienced staff leave, they can take important knowledge about your school with them. But this setting has come up with an idea to stop this from happening... tes.com/magazine/leade…

How can AI help cut your workload? @heymrshallahan rounds up some best practice tips from teachers who use it regularly tes.com/magazine/teach…

Ofsted is a ‘danger to safe working conditions for school staff’, the incoming president of @NAHTnews will tell the union’s annual conference today tes.com/magazine/news/…

Exclusive: Suspensions have risen in primary schools but fallen in secondaries. So what’s driving this increase? @ktormreport investigates tes.com/magazine/news/…

Ambassadors for the DfE’s flexible-working scheme have voiced concerns that the programme did not reach the schools ‘most in need’ of support, a government review finds tes.com/magazine/news/…

The number of pupils identified with vision impairment in Scottish schools is increasing – but we have fewer specialist teachers, writes Lucy Chett of @SightScotland, calling for government action tes.com/magazine/analy…

‘Many’ schools may lack the capacity to manage complaints about the individual support plans proposed in the government’s SEND reforms, education committee chair warns ministers tes.com/magazine/news/…