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Department for Education also says it will expand the national teacher recruitment campaign but has not set out any details

International Baccalaureate results are out – here's how students performed in the UK and around the world

A former DfE adviser also tells the Festival of Education that the Labour government will have to 'tackle a bunch of questions' about the academy system despite its 'agnostic' stance on school structure

The National Governance Association said the DfE had found money for a governor recruitment drive before the election was called

The new education secretary has given her first speech in the role to the department she will now lead – read it here in full

This week's ÌÇÐÄVlog round-up focuses on Labour's plans for education, the challenges the new government must overcome and the reaction from the sector to a historic election victory

Former education secretaries and ministers voted out as Conservative Party suffer historic election defeat

A small trial giving Scottish schools access to marked papers last year found ‘almost all’ had concerns about workload – but schools also welcomed the ‘learning opportunity’

ÌÇÐÄVlog takes a closer look at the gaps in the new Labour government's manifesto pledges for schools

With polling stations open today, we look at the main political parties' plans for schools if they win power

Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT

Election purdah has deepened delays to specialist maths schools programme, trust leader warns

An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights 'plateauing' in attainment after secondary transition

Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be 'faced down'

Smartphones in classrooms cause 'severe loss in focus' among pupils and fuel 'hostility' towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament

A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years

School leaders' network Schools North East's manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools

Proportion of senior leaders predicting cuts to TA spending has risen sharply since last year amid budget struggles, survey finds

LocatED director previously claimed that schools were sitting on surplus land 'the size of central London'

Local authorities say they 'recognise the vital role of teachers' but that 'progress cannot be made by focusing on teachers alone'

The Association of School and College Leaders has called for the creation of a new statutory set of standards to underpin school accountability reforms proposed by Labour

This week’s essential education news includes high rejection rates for ITT applications for subjects with staff shortages, and the scale of the teacher retention crisis

ÌÇÐÄVlog analysis sparks warning that a rise in overseas applications for teacher training will not tackle 'chronic' teacher shortages

Institute of Physics urges exam board AQA to take action amid reports that students were left in tears by A-level paper