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Ofsted review also finds less than half of teachers and leaders are happy with their development training

Concerns were raised over a 'deliberately tricky' maths paper, but the reading test was not as difficult as last year's controversial exam, primary heads report

This week’s essential education news includes Ofsted scrapping its curriculum unit project and news that managed moves have ‘more than doubled’

Figures analysed for Tes show the 'difficult choices' facing trusts and schools owing to 'government underfunding'

Teacher Tapp survey results show government crackdown on short weeks was an 'unnecessary distraction', say headteachers' leaders

Insiders say watchdog's expert subject leads are now focused mainly on routine school inspection and that Ofsted's big curriculum unit project has 'gone'

The proportion of pupils at independent schools has fallen slightly, the Independent Schools Council report shows

A Commons Education Select Committee report into teacher shortages also calls on government to monitor the amount of flexible working schools offer

A prominent SNP MSP thinks the fast-track teacher-training programme is a ‘potential solution’ to Scotland’s teacher recruitment and retention problems

'Ease of access to technology should be an expectation, not an exception,' say teachers frustrated by years of inconsistent internet connections in schools around Scotland

However, most teachers say they feel safe in school, according to a survey for the Youth Endowment Fund

Government should also set goal to reduce curriculum content by 10% across all key stages, according to think tank

Schools told not to teach pupils any form of sex education until Year 5 and prevented from teaching the 'concept of gender identity' to all students

The Scottish government has come under fire over its ‘abject failure’ to prioritise education – and was today told ‘fewer teachers will take us backwards’