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As the general election nears, Liberal Democrats’ education spokesperson Munira Wilson outlines how the party would tackle the issues facing the sector

This week’s essential education news includes a Tes investigation into the number of academies paying teachers above the national rate and a warning about schools facing rising complaints

Inspectors are feeling ‘pressured’ by Ofsted’s target to inspect all schools by next summer, says union

Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission only gave a clean bill of health to seven of the 26 areas that received SEND area inspections last year

The role of inspection has become disproportionate and this must change after the general election, says this school head

The Confederation of School Trusts responds to Ofsted’s Big Listen consultation

Reform of the grading system is ‘long overdue’, ASCL has warned in its Ofsted Big Listen consultation response

School leaders’ union calls for single-word inspection grades to be scrapped in its response to Ofsted’s Big Listen consultation

This week’s essential education news includes Ofsted scrapping its curriculum unit project and news that managed moves have ‘more than doubled’

Insiders say watchdog’s expert subject leads are now focused mainly on routine school inspection and that Ofsted’s big curriculum unit project has ‘gone’

Change will apply to all graded inspections since September 2019, but headteachers’ leaders dismiss move as ‘cosmetic’

A MAT leader who successfully appealed against an Ofsted inspection judgement shares advice for other school leaders considering making a complaint