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The training should empower school staff to facilitate racial equality, says union boss, who is calling for a ‘centralised antiracist approach to education’

Heads, academies and teacher leaders urge ministers to prioritise and fund work to improve inclusion in schools ‘if it is serious about recruitment and retention’

Your roundup of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the DfE and Ofqual’s plans for GCSE and A-level exams, the shortfall in teacher trainees and tips to tackle low-level disruption in your classroom

NFER chief executive Carole Willis chats with ÌÇÐÄVlog about getting out of PE lessons and lunchtime discos at school, the importance of data, and why she would establish an Opportunity Task Force if she became education secretary

Exclusive: Oak National Academy chief insists the newly created national curriculum resources provider will not threaten teachers’ autonomy

As many as two in five children suffer from an allergy, putting schools on the front line if anything goes wrong. Yet awareness, training and government guidance in this area are sorely lacking, finds Hannah Fearn

The government says the new ITT steering group will work with the sector on ‘next steps’, after fears that its culling of providers would lead to regional ‘cold spots’

A proposal to offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools may sound like an easy policy win but, as this primary head outlines, the devil is in the details

An expert panel was divided over the need for ‘top down’ prescription – but there was consensus over where Curriculum for Excellence should go next

Welsh government will fund two new schools that must be low on energy and water consumption

Policy to be funded by reinstating 45 per cent income tax bracket, shadow education secretary to announce

Union boss issues scathing attack on relaunched Oak National Academy, calling it a ‘vanity project’ that will worsen teacher shortages