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School leaders should devise programmes to ensure underrepresented students can see a way into Stem careers, say EPI and CfEY

Sir Kevan Collins tells the Confederation of School Trusts’ conference that ‘we’ve sometimes slipped into a shallow compliance culture’

School leaders say they need help as rising numbers of students ask for special arrangements to sit GCSEs and A levels

Education secretary unveils a raft of measures aimed at making mainstream schools more inclusive, including SEND advisers and a neurodiversity task group

The prime minister hosted a reception at Downing Street to celebrate teachers and teaching assistants this afternoon

The Confederation of School Trusts is ‘seeking reassurance’ over DfE’s planned approach to supporting schools

Ofsted report cards will ‘strongly inform’ the level of regional support and intervention that schools receive from new RISE teams, the DfE says

It will ‘become much more difficult’ for trusts to support maintained schools that need help without the funding, trust leaders warn

The chancellor’s Budget saw a relatively positive outcome for schools. But it may only be putting off problems rather than solving them, writes Sam Freedman

The Independent Schools Council is taking legal action against the government after the tax policy on fees was confirmed in yesterday’s Budget

The chancellor has laid out the Labour government’s first Budget – including its school spending plans for 2025-26. Find all the key details here

Multi-academy trusts are yet to receive a decision on funding bids that were meant to start over the summer in what leaders describe as an ‘incredibly frustrating’ delay