Publication of long-awaited Hayward review response – as well as behaviour action plan and mobile phone guidance – put on hold, as education secretary cites pre-election rules

Seven subject associations call on the party that forms the next government to 'strengthen' recruitment and support for expert specialist teachers

Scottish councils could offer to protect the time children spend in class in exchange for relaxing the rules on teacher numbers – but is the government interested in compromise?

The free breakfast clubs pledge is part of a set of measures that could present additional challenges for schools, according to the IFS

Unions blame ‘delay and prevarication’ of councils and government – and say the new settlement date of 1 August will not be met

The National Governance Association analysed hundreds of DfE-commissioned reviews: these are the main findings

School finance leaders and trust governors call for the main political parties to set out how they would tackle the 'most significant' issue that schools are facing

Sir Kevan was the government's education recovery commissioner until quitting over a lack of funding for his catch-up package

New research also finds 41 per cent of upper secondary students can't take the courses they want in school, usually because of teacher availability

Disadvantaged, high-achieving 5-year-olds keep pace with their affluent peers in primary – but an attainment gap opens up in early secondary, research shows

The Tes Schools Awards celebrated the fantastic achievements of the school sector and teaching profession this year, which included a lifetime achievement award for executive headteacher John Morris OBE

Leaders say they have to 'significantly scale back' growth plans due to widening shortfalls in capacity funding allocations as revealed by Tes

Leader of the biggest MAT wants higher expectations of trusts, new school improvement structures and the scrapping of DfE 'micro-interventions' like the times tables check

This week’s essential education news and analysis includes disadvantaged GCSE students being disrupted by teacher absence and a halt on key decisions affecting academy trusts

Fears have been raised that councils are increasingly mothballing rural schools – with campaigners saying the move is ‘closure by stealth’