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This week’s essential education news includes new key stage 4 performance data revealing a bigger disadvantage gap, one exam board’s plan to take GCSEs online, and a ‘hostile attack’ on teachers’ rights

Ofsted school inspections will come under the spotlight next week when unions, governors, parents and pupils give evidence to a Commons inquiry

Next chief inspector says he will start the role with a ‘big listen’ to ensure Ofsted is ‘of the system and by the system’

Outwood Grange CEO officially confirmed as the next Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has announced

Labour’s shadow education secretary tells conference event she wants to explore how tailored support can help children recover from lost learning

Ofsted is exacerbating the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, says shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell at Labour’s annual conference

Chief inspector shares her experiences and tells academy trust sector conference that MAT inspections are inevitable

ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis showing huge fall in ‘good’ schools being given the top rating by Ofsted reveals how it is now a ‘binary’ inspection grading system, warn leaders

With pupil wellbeing at the heart of the new ISI framework, these are the ways schools can ensure they demonstrate they are following this new requirement

This week’s essential education news and analysis includes why KCSIE is letting pupils and teachers down, MPs calling for a ‘major’ mental health plan to tackle the attendance crisis, plus schools see a rise in Covid absences

All eyes will be on Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives next week following a turbulent start to the term for schools, including the RAAC crisis and absence concerns

Queen Street Group report reveals concerns over consistency of judgements