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The chair of the Headteachers’ Roundtable explains why the group is asking schools to help shape a manifesto listing the issues that need fixing in education

Labour’s Barry Sheerman accuses the schools minister of overseeing the ‘demoralisation’ of the education sector across England

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

Outwood Grange CEO officially confirmed as the next Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has announced