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More than 52 hours a week: Teacher workload continues to rise

Workload

MetaSENse database identifies targeted interventions for SEN students

SEND

Student loan reimbursement could keep 2,100 teachers teaching

Recruitment & Retention

Three-quarters of school trusts preparing to cut costs this year

Whole-school issues

Neglect has become so 'widespread' we have become 'desensitised' to the warning signs

Safeguarding

'Volume and intensity' of GCSE exams is 'too high', exam board concludes

Examinations & Qualifications

'Appalling' – £7,400 free school meals cap has not increased in six years

Free School Meals

Schools urged to focus attendance efforts on the 2.4 million students who miss 5% to 15% of school

Attendance

Teaching on the cheap? Two in five TAs cover at least five hours of lessons a week

Support staff

Teachers lose 7 minutes out of every 30 dealing with misbehaviour in lessons

Behaviour

Dramatic decline in practical science in the classroom

Computing and STEM

Record number of suspensions as schools report rising problems with challenging behaviour

Behaviour