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This week’s essential education news includes schools’ actions to cut workload and controversy over Gavin Williamson’s stance on masks in schools during Covid

This week’s essential education news includes a judge’s ruling over the Ofsted chief’s comments on home education and schools’ fears about the DfE’s latest RSHE demand

This week’s essential education news includes new key stage 4 performance data revealing a bigger disadvantage gap, one exam board’s plan to take GCSEs online, and a ‘hostile attack’ on teachers’ rights

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

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

This week’s essential education news includes school support staff voting on a strike, teachers taking industrial action over workload, and the DfE planning to reboot teacher recruitment