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The next government needs to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' with education policy, National Institute of Teaching chief tells the Labour Party conference

A coalition of trade unions is calling for the material, which has been linked to cancer, to be removed from all public buildings, including schools

Schools, teachers, pupils and organisations all honoured at annual awards party in Birmingham

Gillian Keegan has ordered a formal review after her department revealed a mistake in the national funding formula allocations for schools for 2024-25

Gillian Keegan orders review after a mistake was spotted in the 2024-25 National Funding Formula allocation

Next prime minister must create taskforce to fix child poverty so schools can focus on educational impact, says former DfE senior adviser Sam Freedman

After-school clubs and reduced VAT on boarding school students could reduce tax bill for independent schools if Labour pushes ahead with fee levy, say experts

Chief inspector shares her experiences and tells academy trust sector conference that MAT inspections are inevitable

Former children’s tsar tells inquiry the government failed to ‘realistically prepare’ for Covid lockdowns and mitigate their long-term impact on pupils

Join the ÌÇÐÄVlog News team as we discuss the prime minister's plan for a new post-16 qualification, the Advanced British Standard, and look ahead to the Labour Party's conference in Liverpool

The academies minister said a 'more detailed diagnostic on the root causes of non-attendance' is needed

The DfE is looking at producing subregional plans for areas such as London, setting out how it expects trusts to grow, a regional director has revealed

ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis showing huge fall in 'good' schools being given the top rating by Ofsted reveals how it is now a 'binary' inspection grading system, warn leaders

Some schools are questioning the point of getting tutoring 'up and running' when funds are set to disappear next year

After Rishi Sunak revealed his big plan for post-16 education at his party's conference, how will the opposition respond?

Labour has said it will introduce supervised toothbrushing in schools as part of plans to improve the nation’s oral health

Teacher workload cited as a key reason for rejecting the proposals – but the Labour MSP spearheading the bill says disabled students have been left ‘high and dry’

Shadow schools minister Catherine McKinnell accuses Rishi Sunak of announcing a 'back-of-the-envelope policy' while school roofs are 'literally propped up'

Primary headteachers say P1 literacy and numeracy standardised assessments are 'time consuming and onerous', and interfere with play-based approaches

This week’s essential education news includes a warning that teaching is becoming a 'military tour of duty', Sunak's plan for a new qualification and worries about MAT finances

Confederation of School Trusts chief warns leaders must help 're-establish the social contract' with parents

Less than half of multi-academy trusts are confident about their long-term finances, research shows

Trust leader 'really worried' about impact of disruption on disadvantaged students, as union boss calls for special considerations for those taking exams

The disadvantage gap is still wider than before the pandemic despite the recovery of some learning lost during Covid, NFER research shows