Sponsored Post: Kevin Courtney: Ministers should accept the independent pay review body to increase teachers pay

Teacher supply is in crisis. Recruitment targets are not being met – in some key subjects they are being woefully missed.

Festus Akinbusoye: Ministers must clamp down on schools which misuse exclusion as a tool to raise exam pass rates

Bright but disruptive pupils are allowed to stay while less able but equally troublesome children are dumped. It is illegal, but it happens nonetheless.

James Hockney: Too often it’s not the bullies being excluded from school – but the victims

Where children are scared to go to school, their parents are being threatened with truancy action and given the option to home educate.

WATCH: “This is proceeding at the proper pace” – Hinds denies that he is pushing too fast on T-levels

“We started this process a couple of years ago, there’s still two years and four months before teaching will begin”, the Education Secretary argues.

Francis Davis: Why Hinds’ faith schools cap decision was right

Voluntary-aided status works both for Catholic schools and everyone else. Furthermore, lifting the cap from new institutions could have had unexpected consequences.

The Government has lost momentum on free schools, faith schools, and grammars

Today’s announcements are extremely cautious. Some of this is justified, some less so, but it makes a stark contrast to the Gove era.

James Frayne: The Home Office is famously hard to run, but Rudd might have survived had she had a better grip on it

In my experience of departmental life, it will take at least six months before we can judge Javid’s management.