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New data betrays the extent of the problem facing all types of early years settings – from funding to places. That’s something that should worry all in education, including the government, given that it has just set out ambitious learning goals for 2030

Threats of teacher strikes alongside other sectors have given rise to Winter of Discontent analogies but the financial reality for teachers in this era is far tougher than it was for their counterparts of 50 years ago, explains Yvonne Williams

A roundup of 91¶¶Òõ’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including the threat of teacher strikes over pay, an A-level exam ‘leak’ and schools struggling to get funding to repair buildings

Exclusive: Allow schools and trusts involved in Early Career Framework delivery to build on first-year learning, says leader

Teachers going on strike over pay would cause further disruption to pupils’ education after the pandemic, the education secretary says

The DfE says its chosen provider will deliver a ‘culture change programme’ to embed flexible working in schools and multi-academy trusts

Recruitment targets for physics and computing are highly unlikely to be achieved under any package of measures, report warns

Long-term forecasts from the National Foundation for Educational Research show that, without further uplifts in new teacher pay, the sector will struggle to hit its targets

Exclusive: Support for a teacher strike could increase without a better pay offer, and government should be ‘very concerned’, warns heads’ union leader

Largest teaching union warns it will ballot for strike action if members don’t receive a fully-funded inflation-plus pay rise

Union leader says strike action ‘is the last thing our members want’ and they are making a ‘cry for help’ on pay

There are ‘emerging signs’ of a teacher shortage, with a number of schools reporting that they have not been able to fill vacancies, says recruitment report