Ben Gadsby: Yes, the tuition fee system is working. And, no, there aren’t too many young people in higher education.

Too often, discussions about the sector generate more heat than light – and the light falls in the wrong place. We can do better.

John Bald: My law of education – the more that is written down, the less is actually done

The paperwork mountain grows for Special Needs – yet children are still sent to schools that leave them suffering.

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

Select Committee chairmanships announced

Ellwood to chair the Defence Committee. Tugendhat to chair Foreign Affairs. Hunt to chair Health and Social Care.

Does Johnson have the guts to tackle the rigged housing market described by Halligan?

A new book explains why building land is prohibitively expensive.

John Bald: A new approach is needed to sort out the mess of special needs provision

A global approach to quite different challenges has failed. A long-term decline in specialised teaching skills must be reversed.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Black arts, FSBs and as they come to the last it’s still neck and neck

Jokes continue to be told, but it would be wrong to suggest the contest has been fought in a spirit of unwearying amity.

Which MP is backing which candidate. Our named estimates. Johnson 131, Hunt 48, Gove 36, Javid 22

Here’s our best stab at who is voting for whom, and this list will be updated each morning, as the contest continues.

Andrew Gimson’s leadership sketch: Javid takes on the old school tie

Davidson introduced the Home Secretary, who does not yet shine as brightly as his talents should enable him to do.

The ten candidates who will contest the Conservative Party’s leadership election

So no more dropouts after Sam Gyimah’s departure earlier this afternoon. The first ballot will be held on Thursday.

This week’s winner in the Tory leadership election is…Johnson

The vocation of the front-runner is not to mess up. And he hasn’t. Indeed, he has picked up support – and upped the pace.

The Johnson hype is here. Don’t fall for it.

In a field this crowded and with an electorate so, er, sophisticated, make no assumptions about which names will be forwarded to Party members.

Why the ’22 Executive must tell May to go this week

The unrebuttable fact is that the Prime Minister is in breach of her word, and that the collapse of trust in the Party threatens to be terminal.

Punishing schools for excluding disruptive pupils is the wrong approach

The Gove reforms are being undermined. Headteachers need to have autonomy.

Chris White: Brexit. May’s Commons options after Bercow’s ruling.

There’s little that Conservative MPs can do to stop the Speaker – they don’t have the votes to depose him.