The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is leading a new five-year research programme projecting the demand and supply of essential employment skills up until the year 2035.
Professor Ken Muir CBE will lead work to replace the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) with a new specialist agency for both curriculum and assessment
Many of the projects funded by Condition Improvement Fund will lead to improved classrooms, more energy efficient buildings and will reduce energy bills for schools.
The Joint Union Asbestos Committee has launched a new campaigning website to put pressure on the government to remove all asbestos from educational buildings.
Pupils living in Scotland’s most deprived communities will be among those to benefit from £215 million of funding in 2021-22 to help close the poverty-related attainment gap.
The Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has named Dr Jo Saxton as his preferred candidate to be the next Ofqual Chief Regulator, following approval by the Prime Minister.
Seventy per cent of school leaders think the highest priority for education recovery is one-to-one or small group tutoring run by schools themselves, according to a poll of NAHT members
Ofqual has decided to carry forward some of the changes to non-exam assessment and fieldwork agreed for 2021 for students entering qualifications in summer 2022.