BBC Ideas: The rise of 'digital parenting'

Reeves: There is ‘a cost to not settling’ public sector pay The chancellor has hinted that she may give public sector workers above-inflation pay rises this summer. Rachel Reeves’ comments come after it is understood independent pay review bodies recommended an increase of 5.5% for teachers and some NHS workers. In her first interview from…

The numerical grading scheme was introduced as part of a 2014 curriculum overhaul by then-education secretary, Michael Gove. It put less emphasis on GCSE coursework than before, with grades in almost all subjects decided in final exams. The qualifications were designed to be more challenging, with exams taken after two years of study. Previously pupils…

BBC/Hayley Clarke Tyra Packer’s anxiety has “completely disappeared” since she quit teaching The number of empty teaching posts in England has more than doubled in the past three years, the latest official figures reveal. The number of teachers has risen – but so has the number leaving. And the number of vacancies per 1,000 teachers…

BBC It’s 07:00 on a chilly winter morning and a group of students has just arrived at Chanyanya Primary and Secondary school, a little over an hour’s drive south-west of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka. “You need to come early to school because there is a shortage of desks,” says 16-year-old pupil Richard Banda. “Two days ago…

T-levels, introduced in 2020, are vocational qualifications aimed at 16-to-19-year-olds, external in England, which focus more on practical subjects than academic ones. Each course lasts two years and is roughly equivalent to three A-levels. The qualification includes a mixture of both classroom learning and on-the-job experience, with a work placement of at least 315 hours…

BBC A raft of bills have been announced in the King’s Speech. Here BBC correspondents analyse some of the 39 potential new laws Keir Starmer’s government wants to pass. Banning no-fault evictions Housing is a priority area on which this government will be judged at the next election. A long-promised, but much-delayed, ban on no-fault…