Teacher supply crisis cuts through to wider public, poll suggests Labour’s 6,500 teachers pledge is top schools policy among voters, with 4 in 10 saying schools have got worse since 2010
Tory funding pledge could be ‘biggest cut in 50 years’, says IfS Think tank says Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ actually works out as a 6% reduction and would lead to job losses and school closures
Conservatives manifesto 2024: All the schools policies 13 new policies include protecting school spending in real-terms and mandating phone bans guidance and PE hours
Lib Dems manifesto 2024: All the schools policies 26 pledges include above-inflation school funding boosts, putting arts subjects in the EBacc and upping capital funding by £1.9bn
Labour will convert ‘spare’ primary classrooms into 3,334 nurseries Policy would cost around £140 million and create 100,000 childcare places, party says
Village primary gets a second ‘golden ticket’ to deck out its new home The small school has been handed the keys to a 400-capacity building after a planned free school was abandoned
Birmingham withdraws schools from £100m IT system Heads were unable to make financial plans as glitches left them waiting months to learn the size of their budgets
Leaders divided over Labour plan for Ofsted trust inspections Labour wants Ofsted to inspect trusts as well as individual schools
Thousands of state teachers switch to private sector More teachers have left state schools to work in the independent sector than vice versa in every year since 2019, analysis suggests