Trust chair knighted and ex-Ofqual chief gets CBE in King’s birthday honours 48 people honoured for their work in the schools community in England
Lib Dems bursary pledge ‘inefficient’ use of ‘scarce resources’ Party has pledged to fund teacher training ‘properly so that all trainee posts in school are paid’
Retention tops teachers’ election policy priorities, polling suggests Access to mental health services, getting more support staff and having ‘fewer high-pressure exams’ were other top priorities, Teacher Tapp’s poll found
Labour manifesto ‘missing’ key school spending details – IfS Party offers ‘mostly small’ resources for the many pressing ‘challenges’ facing education, says think tank
Labour manifesto 2024: All the schools policies Party wants to ‘modernise’ curriculum but ‘build on’ knowledge-rich successes
SEND: Number of EHCPs soars by highest rate in 6 years But around half are still not issued by the 20-week legal deadline
Green Party manifesto 2024: All the schools policies Party plans £14bn more education spending, an end to ‘formal’ secondary testing and Ofsted, and wants all academies under LA ‘control’
Teacher supply crisis cuts through to wider public, poll suggests Labour’s 6,500 teachers pledge is top schools policy among voters, with 4 in 10 saying schools have got worse since 2010
Tory funding pledge could be ‘biggest cut in 50 years’, says IfS Think tank says Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ actually works out as a 6% reduction and would lead to job losses and school closures