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In response to pressure to cut the proposed number of grades, Sir Martyn Oliver says he does not want schools to be told they have met a standard ‘and that’s good enough’

Confederation of School Trusts raises concern that the definition of stuck schools can include a school that got a less-than-‘good’ Ofsted grade before a trust took it on

DfE warns that special schools are 8,000 students over capacity and highlights that fewer than one in 10 mainstream schools have specialist provision

Ofsted’s plan for inspection report cards will cause greater anxiety for heads and make judgements less reliable, warns ASCL

But new research exploring the take-up of GCSE subjects in recent years suggests the ‘EBacc era’ could be coming to an end

Warning comes as Tes analysis reveals the local authority areas where spending has jumped by up to 477% over the past four years