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The Conservatives’ Laura Trott claims the education secretary ‘undermined’ Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver in a TV interview

Concerns over last-minute updates to safeguarding guidance come amid wider calls for the government to pause the ‘ever-expanding’ requirements it makes of schools

A significant proportion of students with low prior attainment report that their maths lessons move on before they have understood the topic

Lucy Powell also opens the door to removing the limits on how much headteachers can be paid

Children’s commissioner says children who are influenced by harmful online content are being bounced back to school because they do not meet the criteria for the Prevent programme

One trust alone is spending £100K a year handling a huge rise in requests for personal data, which are often fuelled by parents using AI tools

Lucy Powell says ‘change will come’ on antisemitism in schools as she accepts all of the recommendations in Sir David Bell’s review

The permanent secretary at the Department for Education is leaving her role after six years to be replaced by a top Home Office civil servant

DfE also presses ahead with allowing one-off bonuses for teachers and leaders, despite union warnings about pay inequality

Proposal to remove Sats would make sure schools are not incentivised to ‘teach to the test’, says IPPR research report

A record low proportion of governors and trustees want to take on the role of chair, National Governance Association survey also reveals

This year the government announced that Ofsted would inspect schools’ phone policies as part of a major crackdown on devices – but Tes analysis reveals that such policies are rarely mentioned in inspection report cards