The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has opened a major new research fund to understand how Generative AI (GenAI) tools affect the way children and young people learn.

Parents will soon get clear, practical guidance to help them manage their children’s screen use - which could include advice on when a child should get their first smartphone.  

The Education and Health and Social Care committees have launched a survey to capture the individual experiences of young adults who have received mental health services.

Ofqual 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 exams to be reduced instead.

Schools will be provided with new tools highlighting absence patterns over the year, and new communications guides to improve engagement with families.

The group has acquired Island Primary and Island Montessori in Grand Cayman, the largest of the Cayman Islands.