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DfE minister says new data showing that pupil suspensions have risen by more than a third in a year is ‘shocking’

Graduates are being put off teaching because of increasingly uncompetitive pay, the high workload and a lack of flexible-working opportunities, new analysis suggests

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson, who will jointly lead a new government taskforce, says living in poverty leaves children ‘not ready to learn’

The new Labour government has set out its plans for schools in a Children’s Wellbeing Bill announced in the King’s Speech at the state opening of Parliament

Alternative provision leaders call for more funding and action on unregulated provision in open letter to education secretary

Education secretary acknowledges urgency on teacher pay and says she wants to be ‘honest and upfront’ with schools sector

Education secretary hosts more than 150 school and wider education sector guests at the DfE, after pledge to ‘reset the relationship with the profession’

The government must ‘urgently’ come up with a plan to support small primary schools at risk of closure because of falling pupil rolls, say trust leaders

One fifth of new teachers leave the state sector after two years, new government data shows

Former education recovery commissioner appointed as non-executive director at the Department for Education

The number of marks needed to pass maths has fallen following this year’s ‘deliberately tricky’ paper

Tes takes a closer look at the background and career of the Labour government’s new schools minister