Join the Tes News team as they discuss another 'catastrophic' shortfall in the number of trainee teachers recruited this year

Join the Tes News team as they discuss an exclusive interview focusing on what we can expect from Catherine McKinnell.

Join the Tes News team as they discuss a week dominated by Ofsted as it releases it's final annual report before the change of guard and a new era for the watchdog

Join the Tes News team as we discuss whether single-word Ofsted inspection judgements are on the way out and consider what inspection in the future might look like.

Articles discussed in this week's episode below:

• Ofsted ‘scorecard’ for schools and MATs explored
• Ofsted reports ‘opaque’ without grades, warns Gibb

And here are some other stories we think you might find interesting:

• Labour plans to replace Ofsted grades
• ‘Dreaded’ Ofsted inspections ‘ineffective’
• DfE issues ‘absurd’ threats to trusts with improving schools 

Join the Tes News team as we discuss the state of the school estate across England and whether funds aimed at fixing it will be enough

Join the Tes News team as we discuss the major education policies announced at the Labour party conference this week, including boosting primary school nurseries and plans to "upskill" primary teachers in "real world" maths

Join Tes News deputy editor news John Roberts and news reporter Matilda Martin from the Confederation of Schools Trust (CST) conference as they reflect on the events of the Conservative party conference in Manchester, and look ahead to the Labour party conference in Liverpool next week.

News from the Conservative Party conference:

• Barran: Each school should get a DfE attendance “deep dive”’
• Teaching becoming a “military-style tour of duty”, warns charity boss
• DfE looking at how AI can tackle inequality in education
• Keegan mobile ban “unnecessary” and “desperate”, say unions
• Maths to 18: Beware “unintended consequences”, warns ex-DfE adviser
• Sunak: Advanced British Standard to replace A levels
• Sunak’s A-level plan drawn up on “back of an envelope”

Here’s what else schools need to know this week:

• Schools face “rising tide of mistrust,” warns CST leader
• Concern for 7,000 pupils on free school meals at RAAC-hit schools
• School budgets “stagnate” as increased costs use up funding
• Labour’s education mission: all you need to know

Join the Tes news team as we discuss the scale of the school attendance crisis and whether government efforts to tackle it will have an impact. 

Join the Tes News team as they discuss exclusive stories revealing a spike in Ofsted complaints and a widening gulf between the watchdog and school leaders

Join the Tes News team as they dive into the details behind our exclusive story on how the Department for Education is poised to launch a refresh of its recruitment and retention strategy amid a deepening teacher shortage crisis

Join the Tes News team as they discuss the story that has dominated headlines this week – and why leaders fear wider asbestos and unsafe cladding problems dogging school buildings around the country will now be neglected as funding is diverted to RAAC issues

• Unions demand Keegan answers urgent RAAC questions
•  DfE gives schools four-day deadline to return RAAC survey
• The 147 schools named by DfE as having RAAC
• The 9 RAAC schools denied rebuilding cash last year
• DfE ‘wrongly accusing’ schools of failing to return RAAC survey