Education

• Teaching union rejects pay offer from councils

  The 9% pay increase offered to teachers in Scotland has been rejected by members of trade union EIS.

  

• Pilot project helps a third of youths quit ‘county lines’

  Specialist support helped nearly a third of young people in a pilot project to quit 'county lines' involvement with drugs, according to a review.

  

• Whitehall cuts result in ‘lost generation’ of deaf children

  England’s deaf children are falling a whole grade behind their hearing class mates despite deafness not being a learning disability, a charity has warned.

  

• MPs blast Whitehall’s ‘confused’ approach to early years education

  MPs have criticised the Government’s 30 hours childcare commitment arguing that it ‘confused’ and ‘entrenches’ disadvantage.

  

• Commissioner calls for compulsory register of ‘off the grid’ children

  Thousands of children are receiving no school education and are invisible to local authorities, the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.

  

• Schools to try ‘mindfulness’ in new mental health trials

  Hundreds of children and young people are to take part in trials testing a range of ‘innovative techniques’ designed to support good mental health in schools, the education secretary has announced.

  

• Three areas pilot schemes to get care leavers into work or education

  Three areas have been chosen to pilot schemes to help care leavers access education and employment.

  

• Holyrood urged to promote gender equality in education

  The Scottish government is being urged to establish a new commission to promote equality for girls and women in education.

  

• School league tables ‘punish’ the wrong schools

  Secondary school league tables ‘punish and reward the wrong schools’ by failing to take pupil background into account, new research suggests.

  

• MSPs urge councils to provide free music lessons

  Local authorities have been urged not to charge for music tuition in schools, in a new report published by MSPs.