The former head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman says the government should “think again” on its reform proposals.

Diane Abbott says a wealth tax of 2% on people with assets over £10m would raise £24bn a year

The Reform UK press conference is about to start. There is a live feed here.

Nigel Farage is going to announce that 29 councillors have defected to his party, according to the Guido Fawkes website.

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Recusal from case with huge implications for education could tilt scales in cause her friend spent a career defending

In 2020, when Amy Coney Barrett came before the Senate for confirmation to the US supreme court, one of her closest friends told a story on TV about their year together working as law clerks in the nation’s capital.

“That last day when you leave the court you think, ‘Wow,...

A trio of triangle teasers

The ancient Greek geometer Euclid presented a list of five axioms he held to be self-evidently true. They are (or are equivalent to):

You can draw a line between any two points.

You can extend lines indefinitely.

You can draw a circle at any point with any radius.

All right angles are equal.

All triangles have internal angles that add up to 180 degrees.

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Allison Gardner says schools should be commended for using artificial intelligence in teaching.

Parents and carers say their fight against the closure of Queensway Primary in Yeadon will continue.

Lancaster Academy, LeicesterRoss Willis and Ned Bennett’s audacious adventure for schools is a cult in the making, with a post-apocalyptic plot, snappy gags and a trash-talking baby

This is a textbook example of how to approach theatre for schools. Its new touring production, reaching 10,000 secondary students, finds the National Theatre firing on all cylinders with a gripping, often...

Reserve Bank move follows 2023 decision not to place King Charles on the back of the note. Follow today’s news live

Man drowns in Hunter region waterhole

A man in his 20s has drowned at a waterhole near Dungog in the Hunter region of New South Wales.

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Thinktank says unauthorised absence is ‘a leading cause’ of performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and peers

Unauthorised school absence is a leading cause of the widening performance gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in England, according to analysis from a respected thinktank.

The research by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) found that all of the increase in the...

Those from the lowest income families are now up to 19 months behind peers by the age of 16.

Free school meals in Wales should be “healthier and more climate friendly”, a leading academic says.

Plans to axe a fifth of the workforce at Dundee University have drawn attention to problems in the sector.

Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for study

A high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives stored in India.

Manikarnika Dutta, 37, a historian, conducted the research as part of her academic...

School leaders attacked as ‘an unaccountable elite’ after years of below-inflation pay rises for teachers

A record 775 heads of school academies in England were given pay packages worth more than £150,000 in 2022-23, sparking allegations of an unaccountable “gravy train”.

Figures published last week by the Department for Education (DfE) reveal that nearly a third of academy trusts (30.8%)...

Curriculum chair satisfied with tests in year 6 and year 2 and says system performing well despite Covid setbacks

National tests for primary school pupils will be backed by the government’s curriculum review but it is likely to call for an end to a policy introduced by Michael Gove for students taking GCSEs, the head of the review has suggested.

Prof Becky Francis, the chair of the curriculum...

With regular teaching hours unavailable, agency tutors must compete for lessons

The British Council has been accused of exploiting hundreds of agency teachers on zero-hour contracts forced to compete for lessons in a “feeding frenzy” every week.

An open letter from teaching staff reveals the prestigious government-funded public body does not offer regular hours to tutors on its popular English...

Salford University findings show gulls are predators – not just opportunists snatching people’s snacks

In pictures: Octopus? Ice cream? Is there anything gulls don’t eat?

Gulls are renowned for snatching chips from tourists’ hands, but a scientific project has revealed the greedy birds also like to tuck into moles and quench their thirst with seal milk.

The discovery was among several...

After John Harris’s son was diagnosed, conversation always seemed focused on the things he would struggle with. But a shared passion for playing music grew into something James could do – brilliantly

I start playing songs to my son James from the moment he is born. If I’m given the job of rocking him back to sleep, I usually put on reggae: Junior Murvin’s Police and Thieves and Dawn...

Campaigners welcome decision saying Home Office acted unlawfully

Downing Street has declined to comment on claims that half the cabinet would like Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, to rethink the proposed cuts to disability benefits. (See 9.23am.)

Asked about the report at the Downing Street lobby briefing, the No 10 spokesperson would not comment on what happened at cabinet this week – which is...