Curriculum

Amateur radio can open up a new world of opportunities for students, says teacher Chris Aitken, who shares his tips on how to start a club

Schools in disadvantaged areas have been hit harder by the difficulties in recruiting languages teachers, according to British Council report

To truly understand the issues early years teachers are facing, school leaders need to engage more deeply with this stage of education, writes Julian Grenier

Institute of Physics contacts exam boards ‘urgently seeking reassurances’, as OCR apologises for mistakes in papers

Scotland’s biggest teaching union also calls for extra time for teachers to engage with the review amid concerns that the process so far is ‘lacking’ input from early years and primary staff

Change in Scottish education is proving slow – but could the forthcoming election focus minds when it comes to the promised reduction in teachers’ class-contact time, asks Emma Seith

Why have GCSE and A-level entries fallen if the student population has increased? Ellen Peirson-Hagger analyses the Ofqual entry data for this exam season

Intervention led by teaching assistants improves the progress of pupils struggling with maths by two months, according to the Education Endowment Foundation

Education bill paves the way for change at Scotland’s national assessment and inspection bodies, but critics say it does not go far enough

Rather than debating mobile phone bans, schools should be encouraging young people to develop healthy habits in their digital consumption, writes Margaret Mulholland

The history taught in our schools should be focused on big themes rather than dates and events, says Paul Hamilton

‘Potentially life-saving skills’ can be taught to children from the very start of primary school, teachers are told