School leaders’ union calls on the Standards and Testing Agency to abandon its ‘rigid’ approach to marking and reward children for demonstrating understanding.

Around half of secondary schools have already produced extra documents to prepare for the new inspections.

Students sitting maths exam today only discovered the problem once papers had been opened – now AQA promises to contact schools before results day to ‘explain what we’ve done to make sure no learners are disadvantaged’.

New network aims to make government more aware of the challenges being faced by academy trust leaders.

More than 35,000 teachers walked away from the profession last year for reasons other than retirement with retention rates for new teachers and the use of non-specialist teachers in secondary school still notable concerns.

The renewed focus on reading for pleasure seems to be paying off as children’s engagement with reading has risen for the first time in five years.