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The chief of AQA explains why the exam board believes the time is right to start offering digital exams – but explains it’s a slow and steady process

Announcing the plans, Scotland’s education secretary told the SNP conference she wants all ‘hardworking teachers’ to be ‘supported and empowered’

Early years leaders and experts warn emergency funding and an immediate plan to fix the workforce shortage is needed if Labour is to achieve its aims for the sector

Senior government figures should make marginalised and vulnerable pupils their policy ‘starting point’, says headteachers’ leader Geoff Barton

Whoever wins the next election should commit to maintaining tutoring for pupil premium pupils to help tackle the disadvantage gap, says Action Tutoring CEO

Join the ÌÇÐÄVlog News team as they discuss the major education policies announced by Labour this week, including boosting primary school nurseries and plans to teach ‘real world’ maths

Secondary students are more likely to be negative about maths than primary pupils, research shows

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

This week’s must-read education news includes Labour’s plans for schools and one head’s first-hand account of a school closing because of the falling birth rate

Geoff Barton explains why the most significant moment of the Labour Party conference was not a new policy, but a new approach

Labour announces a new focus on early years and primary school maths, and signals it is up for a ‘fight’ over private school tax breaks

Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson announces plan for early years review led by former Ofsted chief Sir David Bell