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MPs have begun an inquiry into Ofsted's work with schools – here are six highlights from the first evidence session

Unless more funding is provided then the problems with SEND support will 'quickly worsen', cross-party MPs tell the chancellor ahead of his autumn mini-budget

Exam board says digital exams could reduce teacher workload in the longer term

Accountant Peter Wyman will lead a formal review of the quality assurance process around the national funding formula

The biggest union representing Scottish council workers votes to reject the latest pay offer and says more school strikes will be announced in the coming days

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

Schools minister Nick Gibb has written to union leaders after they called for a 2.7 per cent increase in funding to be restored to NFF allocations

The schools minister has rejected education unions' call for the DfE to restore per-pupil funding to the amount announced in July

The NAHT Northern Ireland school leaders' union says it is 'unprecedented' that headteachers would take such action

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

The 'worrying decline in pupil behaviour' in Scottish schools will be highlighted by a teaching union at the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen

Vice-chair of the Confederation of School Trusts, Rory Blackwell, will act as interim chair while the process to find a replacement is ongoing

The secondary head at Glasgow Gaelic School talks about the importance of asking for help, not getting stuck behind your desk and giving Gaelic-medium education the recognition it deserves

Heads call for more high-needs funding and warn that schools cannot afford more teaching assistants to cope

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

The national funding formula allocations for schools were revised down last week after the DfE announced a technical error in processing pupil numbers

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

Four unions have called on the education secretary to restore the 2.7 per cent per pupil funding increase for 2024-25 after it was revised due to a DfE miscalculation

Nearly 9 per cent of secondary school students were absent in the week beginning 25 September

New agreement aims to widen access to degree-level study, and the SQA says that schools will be closely involved

Oak National Academy launches new lesson resources for teachers aimed at representing the diversity of modern life and cutting teacher workload

Next chief inspector says he will start the role with a 'big listen' to ensure Ofsted is 'of the system and by the system'