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Conservative Michael Fabricant under fire for comments made while defending Boris Johnson over partygate
Labour wants to reform the watchdog, while the National Education Union favours abolition
DfE to consult on 'exceptional circumstances' in which academies could request move to 'stronger' trust
Ex-DfE aide: 'If the regulator isn’t set up in the right way, nothing else is going to work'
Ministers face calls to increase pupil premium funding to cover tutoring and literacy and numeracy focus
DfE consults on forcing schools 'not making necessary improvements' to become academies or join a new trust
Leaders take extra teaching and cleaning duties as secondary absences breach 10 per cent mark
The education secretary speaks to Schools Week about his plans for schools, and why he doesn't want to 'play...
And government is still over a million courses away from its annual year target
