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The Reception Baseline Assessment contradicts the government’s own screen-time guidance for young children, says letter to education secretary

Schools are advised that progress scores will not be affected, but heads voice fears about ‘additional stress and workload’

NASUWT urges the government to increase education spending to at least 6 per cent of GDP, saying that schools will be forced to cut jobs

Schools warned against entering potentially decades-long private financing agreements

MPs hear experts’ concerns about the volume of changes about to hit schools, as well as fears that new technical qualifications could be seen as ‘lower-status’

Settings will not get any extra money for providing more extracurricular activities as part of an enrichment ‘entitlement’, the DfE confirms

This year’s GCSE results also reveal that the regional divide in England in attainment continued to widen while the gender gap narrowed

Pupil absence increased in both school phases in the autumn term last year, official figures show, prompting calls for the government to focus on implementing its SEND reforms

Official guidance on single-sex spaces comes into force for schools today, but unions say it does not offer schools enough support and that it has arrived too late

A huge announcement on secondary education was made by Andy Burnham last night, begging a raft of questions. We set out the answers the sector needs and the detail – where it exists – we know already

Schools will be inspected by Ofsted on vocational offering, but sector leaders want more details on multiple aspects of the plans

As the new education secretary begins her tenure, ASCL leader Pepe Di’Iasio outlines three priorities in her in-tray