On this week’s Tes News podcast, we discuss:

• Zahawi: GCSE league tables won’t be about ‘finger-pointing’.
  Reporter Callum Mason analyses comments by Nadhim Zahawi after he defended the decision to publish secondary school league tables for the first time in the Covid pandemic.
   
• Exclusive: Grammars in selective-school MAT bid
  An exclusive story about discussions at the Grammar School Heads Association on forming multi-academy trusts between grammar schools, amid fears that having to join non-selective schools could force them to water down their admissions policies.
   
• Why teaching still has a diversity problem
  Senior editor Dan Worth discusses a major long read into diversity in education and what work needs to be done to build further diversity in initial teacher training - including ensuring these new cohorts of teachers can find their way to the top.