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Treasury says the DfE must fund any teacher pay award from its existing budget, with no additional money being provided beyond spending review settlements

Ofqual says the size of Pearson’s fine for three separate cases reflects the ‘serious nature’ of its failures, which affected ‘tens of thousands’ of students

Google DeepMind aims to build a version of its Gemini chatbot that can be used by teachers and is trained on the national curriculum in England

Two maths schools have also been given the go-ahead but most of the 44 mainstream free-school schemes that were on hold look set to be scrapped

Hackney safeguarding chair will write to the education secretary to voice concerns over criticism of the review from DfE behaviour ambassador Tom Bennett

School leaders are not planning changes to arts provision, despite the scrapping of the EBacc, polling reveals

Demographic decline is squeezing school budgets and forcing political choices. Is it time to rethink the way schools are funded?

Inspectorate and government warned they need to mitigate against risk that the move to new inspection framework will ‘inadvertently’ look like a decline in standards

Leaders question education secretary’s suggestion that creating more specialist places in mainstream schools will address SEND cost pressures outlined in Budget

Government had aimed to publish its plan to fulfil its manifesto promise by the end of the year – but now tells ÌÇÐÄVlog this will be released along with its White Paper

The balance held by local authority-maintained schools in deficit has dropped more than £90m further into the red, government data shows

Too many students with SEND are leaving the school system because of ‘missed opportunities’ to identify their needs early on, says watchdog’s report