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Governance is essential, not optional: NGA launches new report | NGA
Governance is essential, not optional: NGA launches new report
Explore NGA’s new report, The Case for Governance, highlighting why strong governance is essential infrastructure in education, supporting accountability, resilience, and long-term improvement across schools and trusts.
www.nga.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Governance is essential, not optional: NGA launches new report | NGA
UK higher education student numbers fall for second year in a row | HESA
January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM
UK higher education student numbers fall for second year in a row | HESA
Professional learning over CPD | Teacher Toolkit
Professional Learning Over CPD
Ofsted’s shift from CPD to professional learning reframes teacher development as sustained, evidence‑informed practice that builds expertise.
www.teachertoolkit.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Professional learning over CPD | Teacher Toolkit
Fidgets, social media, and shortening GCSE exams | Teacher Tapp
Fidgets, social media, and shortening GCSE exams - Teacher Tapp
Hey there, Teacher Tappers! Well done, we have nearly completed January! It might have 31 days, but everyone knows the truth is it is the longest month. The good news is that we’re nearly at the end. And what’s more, with February comes half-term, so it isn’t all bad! January prize draw – last few … Continued
teachertapp.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Fidgets, social media, and shortening GCSE exams | Teacher Tapp
Five arguments for including Net Zero in the curriculum | BERA
Five arguments for including Net Zero in the curriculum
There are currently zero mentions of Net Zero in the different school curricula across the UK, and this situation is echoed internationally. A number of curriculum reviews are under way, including...
www.bera.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Five arguments for including Net Zero in the curriculum | BERA
The case for governance | NGA
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
The case for governance | NGA
Mumsnet survey reveals three-quarters of parents fear for children's mental health as leading charities launch national crisis plan | Centre for Young Lives
Mumsnet survey reveals three-quarters of parents fear for children’s mental health as leading charities launch national crisis plan | Centre for Young Lives | Press Release
The Future Minds campaign – bringing together Centre for Mental Health, Centre for Young Lives, the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, and YoungMinds – is today (Wednesday 28 January) publishing “Future Minds: a roadmap to transform children and young people’s mental health by 2035”, a new plan to help fix the children’s mental health crisis”.
www.centreforyounglives.org.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Mumsnet survey reveals three-quarters of parents fear for children's mental health as leading charities launch national crisis plan | Centre for Young Lives
The theory and practice of upper secondary certification | OECD
January 28, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The theory and practice of upper secondary certification | OECD
Three-quarters of parents concerned about their child's mental health | SecEd
Three-quarters of parents concerned about their child’s mental health - SecEd
Roadmap urges earlier, school‑based support to tackle rising mental health needs among children and young people
www.sec-ed.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Three-quarters of parents concerned about their child's mental health | SecEd
Cyber resilience: a strategic board-level priority | Jisc
Cyber resilience: a strategic board-level priority - Jisc
www.jisc.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Cyber resilience: a strategic board-level priority | Jisc
ITPs must play a major role in bolstering post-16 capacity | FE Week
ITPs must play a major role in bolstering post-16 capacity
The teenage population boom can't be solved by expanding colleges alone
feweek.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
ITPs must play a major role in bolstering post-16 capacity | FE Week
Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2024/25 | HESA
January 28, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Higher Education Student Statistics: UK, 2024/25 | HESA
A postmortem of M&A activity to date | HEPI
A postmortem of M&A activity to date - HEPI
Join HEPI and Huron for a webinar 1pm-2pm Tuesday 10 February examining how mergers, acquisitions and shared services can support financial sustainability in higher education. Bringing together a panel of speakers, the session will explore different merger models, lessons from the US and schools sectors, and the leadership and planning required to make collaboration work […]
www.hepi.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:37 PM
A postmortem of M&A activity to date | HEPI
Universities as engines for economic growth | HEPI
Universities as engines for economic growth - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Laura Trevelyan, Chancellor of Cardiff University. 2025 was something of an annus horribilis for Britain’s universities. It felt as though barely a week went by without another alarming report on a university facing a ballooning deficit, compulsory redundancies, shrinking student numbers, or worse. Yet beneath the depressing headlines there […]
www.hepi.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Universities as engines for economic growth | HEPI
Creating a Decolonised and Liberated Curriculum Self-Assessment Tool (DeLCSAT) | IOE
Creating a Decolonised and Liberated Curriculum Self-Assessment Tool (DeLCSAT)
In higher education, the call to decolonise and liberate the curriculum is not just a trend, it’s a transformative movement aimed at fostering equity, inclusion and critical engagement... (read more)
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Creating a Decolonised and Liberated Curriculum Self-Assessment Tool (DeLCSAT) | IOE
Talking Transformation: Episode 7 - Technology and pedagogy (podcast) | Advance HE
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Talking Transformation: Episode 7 - Technology and pedagogy (podcast) | Advance HE
It's time for a Higher Education Commissioner | Lifelong Education Institute
It’s Time for a Higher Education Commissioner
An HE Commissioner could drive structural reform, support university mergers, and create a more coherent Post-16 education system across England.
www.lifelongeducation.uk
January 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
It's time for a Higher Education Commissioner | Lifelong Education Institute
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Annabel Denham: If universities don't change, don't bother going | The Telegraph
January 28, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Annabel Denham: If universities don't change, don't bother going | The Telegraph
Transport Committee calls for action to secure skills for transport manufacturing | UK Parliament
January 28, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Transport Committee calls for action to secure skills for transport manufacturing | UK Parliament
Growing 18-year-old population pushes UK university applicant numbers higher | UCAS
January 28, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Growing 18-year-old population pushes UK university applicant numbers higher | UCAS
Why SEND reform depends on the early years | TES
Why SEND reform depends on the early years
Because the EYFS shapes children’s first learning experiences, it is where the SEND crisis begins - so it needs to be a key focus in fixing the problem, writes Julian Grenier, who offers three ways to improve practice
www.tes.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Why SEND reform depends on the early years | TES
4 pillars for a thriving resourced provision in schools | TES
4 pillars for a thriving resourced provision in schools
A headteacher who has had a resourced provision unit in her school for almost 20 years reflects on the fundamentals to ensure it’s a success
www.tes.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:39 AM
4 pillars for a thriving resourced provision in schools | TES
What the Dunning-Kruger Effect reveals about teacher growth | TES
What the Dunning-Kruger Effect reveals about teacher growth
To truly understand how we grow as teachers - and how our pupils learn - it helps to be aware of this key concept about the relationship between competence and confidence, writes principal Ildar Iliazov
www.tes.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 AM
What the Dunning-Kruger Effect reveals about teacher growth | TES
Three lessons to give schools great governance | Schools Week
Three lessons to give schools great governance
Experience shows that governors can provide powerful insights into the wider community
schoolsweek.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Three lessons to give schools great governance | Schools Week