Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Recruitment market 'deeply unequal' with schools serving poorer cohorts struggling

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson and her ministers have faced MPs' questions in Parliament

100 leaders share experience of revamped Ofsted inspections in new survey

Life satisfaction 'was a stronger predictor of absence' for girls than boys, says think tank

Headteacher John Hayes describes January visit as 'the worst experience of my career'

But education secretary Bridget Phillipson blasts move as 'massively premature'

Experts warn this is 'not a time for scaling back' recruitment tactics, and criticise mid-year change

The department quietly updated its website to say it had 'made the decision not to run own-brand events'

Analysis of more than 650 Ofsted reports renews concern around use of 'crude' national averages

The government says falling pupil rolls and better teacher retention rates are among the reasons