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Disadvantaged, high-achieving 5-year-olds keep pace with their affluent peers in primary – but an attainment gap opens up in early secondary, research shows

The ÌÇÐÄVlog Schools Awards celebrated the fantastic achievements of the school sector and teaching profession this year, which included a lifetime achievement award for executive headteacher John Morris OBE

Leader of the biggest MAT wants higher expectations of trusts, new school improvement structures and the scrapping of DfE ‘micro-interventions’ like the times tables check

Leaders say they have to ‘significantly scale back’ growth plans due to widening shortfalls in capacity funding allocations as revealed by ÌÇÐÄVlog

This week’s essential education news and analysis includes disadvantaged GCSE students being disrupted by teacher absence and a halt on key decisions affecting academy trusts

Fears have been raised that councils are increasingly mothballing rural schools – with campaigners saying the move is ‘closure by stealth’

Wider absence gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers after transition to secondary could be partly down to differences in ‘parental support’, say analysts

Leader calls for ‘full transparency about academy decisions’ as ÌÇÐÄVlog reveals that regional advisory boards will not meet or publish minutes in pre-election period

The next government must tackle the challenges of the special educational needs and disabilities system, urges Education Policy Institute

None of the main parties’ election manifestos offer ‘significant extra levels of core funding to help schools’ meet their financial challenges, IFS warns

School Cuts coalition calculates schools could have an extra £36,000 each on average if the DfE distributed unspent capital funds

The project will use artificial intelligence to learn about ‘defects’ associated with different types of buildings