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The government has cut funding for the International Baccalaureate in state schools but is recreating one of the IB’s leading courses in the form of V levels, argues John Claughton

Shadow education secretary talks to 91¶¶Òõ about the ‘pushback’ facing heads on exclusions, how schools are ‘lagging’ on phone bans and why RISE plans are ‘reckless’

The benchmark is one of several adopted by the government as a ‘starting point’ for its new enrichment framework for schools, leader tells 91¶¶Òõ

Taskforce urges the government to create a new layer of statutory SEND support in mainstream schools – but to keep existing EHCPs temporarily

Government had been expected to set out SEND reform plans this autumn – but the education secretary says it is important to ‘take the time to listen and get it right’

Trust leader Dr Ogden is also a RISE adviser and on the panel of the curriculum and assessment review

The former prime minister gives evidence to the Covid inquiry on decisions made about schools during the crisis

Watchdog’s national education director also tells the Schools North East summit that Ofsted is in talks with the DfE about concerns over the inspection of inclusion

Professor Becky Francis tells the Confederation of School Trusts conference that only 50 out of 3,000 17-year-olds who had achieved a grade 2 in GCSE maths went on to pass in the most recent round of resits

The chief inspector, speaking at the Confederation of School Trusts conference, rejects the idea that Ofsted has not considered headteachers’ wellbeing in developing its new inspections

The government wants groups of schools to be inspected – but designing a robust, supportive and useful inspection system for them isn’t easy, says the Confederation of School Trusts’ Steve Rollett

The introduction of inspections for trusts should not discourage them from taking on struggling schools, argues the MAT sector body