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There is plenty to discuss this week, with a new look (or not so new look) DfE team leading the headlines.

Reporter John Roberts joins us to break down what we can expect from Gillian Keegan, Nick Gibb and Robert Halfon.

And senior editor Dan Worth is back to cover practically everything else in a whistle-stop tour of our features stories this week!

Everything mentioned in this week's episode is available to read in full on our website:

• Gillian Keegan appointed as new education secretary
• ‘We can’t face another round of cuts,’ new DfE ministers told
• Gibb and Halfon appointed as DfE ministers
• Keegan, Gibb and Halfon: what education can expect
• Why does the DfE think we need fewer maths teachers?
• Labour’s Skills Report: The good, the bad and the confusing
• Sats: How to fix Year 6 writing moderation
• School funding crisis: ‘The mood among leaders is desolate’
• More money not a fix for ‘drastically overworked’ teachers
• Why wellbeing inspections are stressing out private schools

Discussion of the benefits of taking a cross-curricular approach to creativity and how schools can aim to embed it into every subject.

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In today's episode we discuss:

• What chaos in Westminster means for schools
• The prospect of a winter of strikes
• Why a falling birth rate spells problems for schools

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In today's episdoe we discuss

• DfE £9m academy debt bill set to rise amid cost pressures
• Teaching unions move closer to strike action as ballots announced
• Frankie Thomas: The tragic pupil death all schools must learn from

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We're back after a summer break to catch you up on the latest in the world of education

On this week's episode:

• Everything on education from the Labour and Conservative party conferences
• Why schools will have to plan carefully for future extreme heat incidents
• All you need to know on KS1 and phonics data released this week

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The stories discussed on this episode:

• 7 ways the DfE’s SEND reforms could fail
• £1bn support-staff pay rise could ‘break’ school budgets
• Should schools have greater oversight of edtech?

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On this week's episode, we discuss:

• Experienced teacher pay to rise by 5%
• Cleverly: Not the right time to confirm two-year teacher pay increases
• Teacher pay 2022-23: what the salary rises mean for you
• Threat of heads’ industrial action over ‘inadequate’ pay award
• Why the sector should embrace plans to help repeat ‘RI’ schools
• IB chief: Why we’re reviewing our wellbeing impact on pupils

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This week we discuss:

• Why schools should set up their own R&D departments
• KS2 Sats results: what secondary leaders need to know
• Exclusive: School budgets on a ‘knife edge’ over teacher pay
• School chain ups support staff salaries amid pay ‘arms race’

Hello and Welcome back to the Tes News Podcast.

I'm your host, Joshua Morris.

It’s been a really busy week in the world of education - one that has seen three education secretaries and, of course, SATs results.

Reporters John Roberts and Callum Mason catch everyone up on the whirlwind week in Westminster.

And senior editor Grainne Hallahan ponders the usefulness of SAT targets.

Hello and welcome back to the Tes News Podcast, I'm your host Joshua Morris.

On this week's episode, I'm joined by John Roberts to discuss:

• Schools Bill: DfE scraps academy power measures after backlash
• Plan to academise ‘coasting’ schools goes ahead despite Ofsted fears

And Grainne Hallahan offers advice for schools facing their biggest ever influx of new staff:

• A 7-point plan for your September new starter explosion