An intensive football programme is being run at Bradfield College in Berkshire, which sees budding footballers train as they might at a club academy whilst spending an equal amount of time engaged in A-level tuition. By Jim White, The Telegraph.

Education Secretary, Damian Hinds MP, has called on technology companies to help improve teaching and reduce teacher workload. By Alix Robertson, Schools Week.

Read the Department for Education press release.

Luciana Berger, Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, and Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central, write for The Times discussing the early years gap.

Bernard Trafford, interim headteacher of the Purcell School, writes in Tes arguing that teachers and pupils deserve to have the holidays off without having to find a holiday job.

Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, writes in The Guardian discussing the rise in unconditional university offers and arguing that pupils should not apply to university after receiving their results.

Robert Halfon MP, chair of the Education Select Committee, has said top universities should be more open to vocational degrees and qualifications in order to improve diversity in higher education. By Eleanor Busby, The Independent.

Students across Scotland are receiving exam results today in their National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers. BBC News.

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