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The DfE is consulting on excluding certain staff – including MAT leaders – from the new School Support Staff Negotiating Body

Personalised reports will be given to more than 1,000 schools and colleges to help improve accuracy amid a ‘growing difference between predicted grades and achieved grades’

Education secretary tells Sir Martyn Oliver it is ‘disappointing’ that Ofsted has delayed its consultation response on changes to the inspection system – with new inspections due to start next term

Former chief inspector, who led a major review into Ofsted, has been selected as chair of the schools watchdog

New guidance for schools on using AI can help to cut teachers’ workload, says the government

A funding increase for schools is expected to be announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves this week – but experts question how much of a difference it will make

A DfE announcement on extending free school meals has sparked a political war of words. 91¶¶Òõ digs into the numbers behind the conflict

The NFER has suggested that discrimination may be a factor behind the ‘significant ethnic disparities’ in initial teacher training rejection rates

Ofsted and the CQC will also consider moving to a report-card system for SEND area checks when the current cycle of inspections ends

EIS general secretary makes her comments to AGM delegates as she formally opens a ballot on industrial action over workload

Plan comes as figures suggest language assistant hires have fallen for the first time in five years

The DfE won’t confirm whether AI is being used to analyse 7,000 submissions to the curriculum and assessment review