Legal: How to manage restructuring, redundancies and industrial action With more budget cuts on the horizon, here are some answers to the questions leaders ask us most about their predictable consequences
How schools are evolving to meet new and persistent challenges Our new State of the Nation in Education report is a testament to the sector’s impatience for innovation in difficult times
Six lessons from the biggest ever study on pupil engagement Trends arising from a study of over 100,000 pupils sheds light on how school leaders can best tackle attendance, behaviour and more
Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about their mental health
What leaders really want from NPQs (and the review isn’t asking) In-depth research with school leaders reveals what the NPQ review should actually be asking them and how the programmes can be improved
What we can learn from other countries about ‘SEND’ funding England is increasingly an outlier in its approach to identifying and meeting learners’ needs
The hidden funding cut that will soon affect your school Cuts to support for a group of vulnerable children garnered little attention, but they will have consequences for the education sector
How will we know if RISE teams are really helping? Labour’s school improvement drive is well-intentioned, but a crucial piece of the policy puzzle is missing that could undermine its ambition
How assessment should (and shouldn’t) evolve in the age of AI We can no longer ignore how AI is changing the assessment landscape – but it doesn’t mean what many think it does