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BREAKING: A huge shift in secondary education has been announced by @andyburnham.bsky.social - new technical routes offered in schools for 14 year olds.... by 2028. Announcing in the holidays with very little info is not a good way of selling it to the sector. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

New technical pathways in secondary schools by 2028, PM announcesSchools will be inspected by Ofsted on vocational offering, but sector leaders want more details on multiple aspects of the planswww.tes.com

Feels significant that Georgia Gould has been retained as schools minister. She has been leading on far reaching SEND reforms which are still very much in train. Here is a round up of what the government announced earlier this year. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

How is Labour planning to reform SEND?The DfE sets out proposals for schools to produce statutory support plans for pupils with SEND and for new national inclusion standards. Here’s everything you need to know about its reform planswww.tes.com

After a change at the top of the DfE, editor @jonsevers.bsky.social looks back at the tenure of Bridget Phillipson in a post-reshuffle special Tes Daily newsletter. Read it here ⬇️

Tes Daily: A missed opportunity follows Phillipson out of the DfEJon Severs looks back at the two-year tenure of Bridget Phillipson in a post-reshuffle special Tes Daily newsletter145850312.hs-sites-eu1.com

If the system for inspecting MATs isn’t designed correctly, trusts could be put off from taking on struggling schools in disadvantaged areas, warns @ngauk.bsky.social

MAT inspections 'could put trusts off struggling schools'With the government planning trust-level inspections, the National Governance Association warns against judging MATs by looking at the overall performance of their schoolswww.tes.com

The DfE is creating new standards for trusts and for inclusion – but it can’t just provide a checklist for everyone to follow; it needs to set out clear principles that support professional judgement, writes @leoracruddas.bsky.social of @cstvoice.bsky.social

DfE standards must guide the sector, not tell us what to doThe government’s creation of new standards for trusts and inclusion offers an opportunity to set out clear principles – instead of just writing up new checklists, says the Confederation of School Trusts’ Leora Cruddaswww.tes.com

In his editorial on 6.7.2026 @jonsevers.bsky.social reflected on the new report published about white working class educational outcomes…. I am going to reflect back on this.. Long thread I have much experience (and years) of working in schools serving these populations successfully. 1/n

Update: Heads' leaders say it is ‘incredible’ that schools have only just been informed of the delay to Sats results, after the DfE told Tes it had been aware of issues with Pearson’s system since May

KS2 Sats results delayed by more than a weekExam board apologises for ‘technical issues’ as government considers cancelling Pearson contractwww.tes.com

The Tes team has worked very quickly to update all our payscales tables - example below. All the tables here: www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Big exclusive from @cerysturner.bsky.social - two-year pay plan, not fully funded - schools' ability to make up the difference will depend heavily on their context.

The DfE could lose more than £300m as funding is diverted to the government’s defence budget, with the prime minister warning that the country has to be prepared for a possible war

More than £300m could be taken from DfE budget to fund defenceThe prime minister, saying that the UK has to be prepared for war, sets out his Defence Investment Plan, which will divert funding from the capital budget for schoolswww.tes.com

27 degrees will be on the cool side in the next five days... The article goes on to cite research that behaviour gets worse above 25 degrees.

If we want learners to thrive, teachers need to give them less freedom in the classroom, according to evidence gathered by science writer David Epstein

Why limits are good for learning - and too much freedom isn’tIn an exclusive extract from his new book, bestselling author David Epstein explains how he discovered that constraints often have surprising benefits, including for teaching and learningwww.tes.com

‘Sometimes total autonomy is not a gift - it can be an anxiety-inducing trap’: head Hannah Carter reveals the important lesson she has learned about how much freedom she gives to her leadership team

Beware the autonomy trap: some leaders like being told what to doA head who always believed that her leaders wanted to be given total freedom reflects on the moment when she came to realise that this isn’t always the case – and how she adapted in responsewww.tes.com

Excl: One in ten schools’ rejected government offers of “enhanced support” through attendance and behaviour hubs. @ascl-uk.bsky.social says schools may not be confident the support available is suitable, while the DfE is “not concerned”. @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Rejected: 1 in 10 offers of extra attendance and behaviour helpSchools targeted for help under DfE scheme may feel 'unfairly stigmatised', says heads' leaderwww.tes.com

Calls for schools to increase free play time may not be the answer to youth inactivity that some believe it could be, argues Anna Willcox in the latest of our ‘What if...’ series

What if schools restored ‘proper’ lunch breaks and breaktimes?In the latest in our ‘What if...’ series, Anna Willcox argues that increasing free play time in schools may not be the answer to youth inactivity that some believe it iswww.tes.com

In addition to all the below..by design a bunch of 18 year olds are suddenly out of the family home in some form of work or tertiary education, and we keep shunting the 'here's a bunch of painful lessons you learn as you get older' further into people's lives, when they are more catastrophic.

Fewer assessments, rather than shorter exams, the answer to reducing the burden? Tes analysis shows most schools already avoid the longest GCSE assessments. @ascl-uk.bsky.social says fewer papers, not “tinkering”, is the better solution. @tesmagazine.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Schools lack scope to cut exam time as most pick shorter papersOfqual says schools can cut exam times by choosing different awarding bodies, but Tes analysis reveals that, in most cases, this isn't an option – and school leaders are now calling for the number of ...www.tes.com

GEMS Education is set to open a new international school in Zanzibar – part of a wider plan for rapid global growth, GEMS School Management chief executive Robert Tarn tells @dan-worth.bsky.social

GEMS plans Zanzibar school launch to kickstart global growthGEMS School Management, the advisory arm of GEMS Education, is set to be contracted for 10 schools in nine different countries within its first 10 months of operation, CEO Rob Tarn tells Teswww.tes.com

A fantastic reaction to this piece today