Research

A reading intervention doesn’t have to deliver improved progress to be worthwhile – if it tells us more about the pupil’s needs, it’s helpful, says Megan Dixon

The number of education, health and care plans has more than doubled since 2016. Here are five key points from today’s DfE data

Whole-class feedback has the potential to be a workload saviour, says Alex Quigley, but does it always help learning?

Call for all eligible children to be automatically enrolled for FSM follows the government announcement that it is expanding the entitlement from next year

In recent years, PE has been squeezed out of school timetables, while breaktimes have grown shorter. What effect is this reduction in physical activity having on students’ health and learning? David Robson investigates

Only about a quarter of Scottish primary headteachers would recommend the role to others – the lowest proportion ever recorded in an annual survey

The NFER has suggested that discrimination may be a factor behind the ‘significant ethnic disparities’ in initial teacher training rejection rates

The DfE has commissioned research into international teachers and trainees to understand barriers to recruitment and retention

The DfE has published its latest census data on schools and pupil characteristics. Here is everything you need to know

While phonics is now universal in England’s schools, in other English-speaking countries the battle over the best way to teach reading is far from won. Holly Korbey investigates why

Almost half of Scottish teachers report working at least seven hours of unpaid overtime per week, according to new research

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a well-known educational theory designed to classify learning objectives, but it isn’t without controversy. We take a look at what it involves