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Three high-profile multi-academy-trust chief executives are understood to be in the running to replace Amanda Spielman

This week’s education news round-up includes reports of pupils crying over the difficulty of this week’s Sats reading paper, Ofqual guidance on mock GCSE exams and an investigation into the drop in the number of teachers over 50

School admissions watchdog says that, in terms of accommodating pupils with special educational needs, the impact of exceeding a school’s planned places ‘should not be the paramount concern’

This week’s round-up includes a plan for education unions to coordinate strike action, a High Court challenge against Ofsted and the DfE spending £350K on wildflower seeds

School leaders hope to fund a High Court action to compel Ofsted to reveal the evidence it uses to downgrade schools

NAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman is to urge ministers to come back to negotiating table in his speech to union’s annual conference

NAHT president-elect Simon Kidwell will tell the union’s conference that schools should take action to put Ofsted ‘back in its box’

Ofsted resumed its summary evaluations of multi-academy trusts a year ago. Here is everything you need to know about its findings since then

The fact that multi-academy trusts are not being inspected means they are not being held fully ‘accountable’ or receiving enough ‘credit’ for their work, warns Ofsted

A new inquiry, chaired by a former schools minister, will look at ways to make school inspections ‘fairer’ amid controversy over Ofsted’s approach

Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman seeks to address concerns over safeguarding judgements and the watchdog’s complaints process

Schools minister says the government and inspectorate would consider if limiting judgements on safeguarding are right approach after concern raised about schools being downgraded