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A roundup of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including confirmation on exam exemptions for students with long Covid, Ofsted’s five-year strategy and new teacher wellbeing data

Professor Sugata Mitra talks to Tes about his bold claim, at the World Education Summit, that we should give students access to the internet in exams and explains in more detail how it could work

How do you show off your school to prospective parents and their children if it is inaccessible? That was the challenge international schools faced in the pandemic – and it opened their eyes to the power of virtual school tours, as Kester Brewin discovers

They may seem dry, but new technology standards could be key in helping ensure schools have the right level of infrastructure to meet the digital demands of the future

The world-renowned educationalist behind the ‘Hole in the Wall’ computer experiment predicts what will be next in education

Exclusive: The Competition and Markets Authority is questioning schools affected by the ESS contract extension

Despite teaching’s recent digital revolution, thousands of schools are still struggling with sub-par internet connections – causing a huge equality gap. So, what can be done to fix it?

What benefits would a new digital teaching service provide – and what are the pitfalls it needs to avoid? Dame Alison Peacock and Cat Scutt from the Chartered College of Teaching break down what we know so far

School information management systems supplier ESS came under fire last year after switching from one-year to three-year contracts

New data from COBIS, seen exclusively by Tes, reveals the new ways of working that international schools intend to keep in any post-pandemic world – and the challenges they still face

The areas that have seen the biggest switch to online learning this term have been revealed by new research

The innovative people, organisations and products featured in this year’s prestigious ‘Edtech 50’ list are unveiled