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Friday
5th Jul 2024
Weekly round-up: What will Labour mean for schools?
This week’s Tes round-up focuses on Labour’s plans for education, the challenges the new government must overcome and the reaction from the sector to a historic election victory
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Keegan among former education ministers to lose in election
Former education secretaries and ministers voted out as Conservative Party suffer historic election defeat
![Gillian Keegan](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/Keegan-loses3.jpg?itok=1iBKXOUp)
12 questions for the new Labour government on education
Tes takes a closer look at the gaps in the new Labour government’s manifesto pledges for schools
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Labour’s education policy: what schools can expect
The new government has pledged to hire teachers in shortage subjects, replace Ofsted grades and ensure schools are inclusive for pupils with SEND
![Kier Starmer Labour education policy](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/Kier_starmer_Labour_education_policy.jpg?itok=uNtKsgIN)
Thursday
4th Jul 2024
General election: what are the 3 main parties’ education policies?
With polling stations open today, we look at the main political parties’ plans for schools if they win power
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All schools ‘should be ordered to offer ITT places’
Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT
![All schools should be ordered to offer teacher trainee places](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/teacher%20trainee%20places.jpg?itok=WVJxVV4l)
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Maths teachers lack subject-specific training, EEF finds
An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights ‘plateauing’ in attainment after secondary transition
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Wednesday
3rd Jul 2024
Sir Kevan Collins ‘agnostic’ about school structures
Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be ‘faced down’
![Sir Kevan Collins ‘agnostic’ about school structures](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/Kevan_Collins6_0.jpg?itok=g5BFFMXO)
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New call for complete ban of mobile phones in Scottish schools
Smartphones in classrooms cause ‘severe loss in focus’ among pupils and fuel ‘hostility’ towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament
![New call for complete ban of mobile phones in Scottish schools](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-06/phone%20ban3.jpg?itok=Gn0X3HB2)
Teachers get ‘minimal’ training in helping pupils to write
A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years
![A child writing](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/Help_write.jpg?itok=uFbU71Ip)
Tuesday
2nd Jul 2024
7 demands from North East leaders ahead of the election
School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools
![Election 2024: 7 demands from North East school leaders](https://assets.tes.com/magazine-attachments/s3fs-public/styles/448x245/public/2024-07/Food%20bank.jpg?itok=VQboiohU)
Teaching assistant cuts expected in half of deprived schools
Proportion of senior leaders predicting cuts to TA spending has risen sharply since last year amid budget struggles, survey finds
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