The schools watchdog has published findings from its pilot of new report card inspections, along with the changes it plans to make. Here is everything you need to know

The upper end of the salary scale has increased by over £45,000 – prompting a union to question the ‘significant’ amount being spent on ‘an outdated accountability model’

The Francis review's final recommendations include scrapping the EBacc, reducing exam time and making triple science available to all at GCSE

Queen Elizabeth's School, in London, is to launch a fee-paying school in Dubai and has further plans for two more schools in India

First minister responds after GMB union highlights 'dramatic escalation in violence and threatening behaviour' in Scottish schools

Dominic Norrish, previously COO of United Learning, will take up the role following Tim Coulson's departure to become director general of the DfE’s regions group

The government is looking for primary and secondary teachers to join the latest cohort of its Teacher Reference Group

The NAHT's bid for a judicial review over the new Ofsted framework was heard just a week before inspections are due to start

The government has provided information about acquiring funding through its Strategic School Improvement Capital Budget

A government pilot scheme offering £1,000 payments to attract early years staff resulted in fewer applicants than expected, a review shows

The government has proposed that teachers get a 6.5 per cent pay award over the next three years. Tes sets out all the key information about the DfE's provisional offer

Some pupils are being wrongly excluded from school because this vague 'catch-all' category is creating inconsistency in the system, warn PRU and AP leaders

NAO calls on government to tackle 'unsustainable' costs as almost half of local authorities report annual overspends of 20 per cent or more on getting pupils to school

The affluence of the area in which a school is located is linked to the number of summer-born children who start Reception a year later, research shows

Schools made nearly 45,000 more social services referrals last year compared with a decade ago, DfE data shows