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The former long-serving schools minister reflects on passing the baton for education to a new Labour team of ministers, and the challenges inherent in the ministerial roles

With Bridget Phillipson announced as Labour’s education secretary, Tes looks at her career and her views on education

With polling stations open today, we look at the main political parties’ plans for schools if they win power

Vulnerable boys are being fed increasingly severe misogyny through social media, according to research from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr. She talks to Zofia Niemtus about her findings and the role schools can play in protecting male students

Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT

An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights ‘plateauing’ in attainment after secondary transition

We all want reflective students, writes Erin Miller, but our approach in nurturing this skill must be more than a tick-box exercise

Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be ‘faced down’

Smartphones in classrooms cause ‘severe loss in focus’ among pupils and fuel ‘hostility’ towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament

One trust explains the strategic approach it has taken that is providing ‘green shoots’ of recovery on school attendance

A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years

School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools