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Education secretary tells Tes she is ‘agnostic’ about school structures as she sets out her ambitions for technical education

DfE wants all primary schools to have free breakfast clubs by the end of this Parliament, but 17 months into the scheme, more than 14,000 schools are still without one

Capital funding is needed to make schools climate-proof following this summer’s record heatwaves, a school leaders’ union warns

Coalition of teaching and school leader unions says schools would need an extra £4.5 billion a year to restore funding to 2010 levels

The Reception Baseline Assessment contradicts the government’s own screen-time guidance for young children, says letter to education secretary

Schools are advised that progress scores will not be affected, but heads voice fears about ‘additional stress and workload’

NASUWT urges the government to increase education spending to at least 6 per cent of GDP, saying that schools will be forced to cut jobs

Schools warned against entering potentially decades-long private financing agreements

MPs hear experts’ concerns about the volume of changes about to hit schools, as well as fears that new technical qualifications could be seen as ‘lower-status’

Settings will not get any extra money for providing more extracurricular activities as part of an enrichment ‘entitlement’, the DfE confirms

This year’s GCSE results also reveal that the regional divide in England in attainment continued to widen while the gender gap narrowed

Pupil absence increased in both school phases in the autumn term last year, official figures show, prompting calls for the government to focus on implementing its SEND reforms