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The Department for Education spent more than £11,000 on canapes and booze for climate change strategy launch – but civil servants were barred from the buffet

Trusts launch women-only leadership programmes and promising flexible working to attract men into 'traditionally female' roles to drive down gender pay gaps

Nadhim Zahawi is under fire for passing up an invitation to the NAHT leaders' union conference, despite being in the same town while the event was taking place

But a poll suggests plans to let good schools bid to divorce failing trusts will help lessen fears over ministers' academy vision

Amanda Spielman has dismissed suggestions that pressure from Ofsted is contributing to an exodus of heads, blaming consultants 'trying to make people afraid'

Government will scrap flagship edtech demonstrator programme after just over two years, claiming it is no longer needed as schools reopen after Covid closures

Primary schools should be banned from excluding children and positive Ofsted ratings withheld from non-'inclusive' schools, says ex-children's commissioner

A government teacher training adviser has described setbacks with the flagship early career framework (ECF) as 'teething problems' that can be fixed by 'tweaks'

Ministers plan to name and shame schools not using tutoring cash under a new push to 'improve transparency and support uptake' of the flailing flagship scheme

Mistrust over the partygate scandal is making it harder to instill 'integrity and honesty' in pupils, a union boss will warn today