This autumn, the Good Schools Guide predicts there will be close to 25,000 more students applying for Year 7 places in England than last year. By Rosemary Bennett, The Times.

Dr Christopher Ray, former head of Manchester Grammar School, has written to The Telegraph about affordable school fees. His letter is halfway down the page.

Mark Enser, a teacher and writer, argues that teaching becomes easier and less stressful the longer someone is in the profession. Tes.

School-centred initial teacher training (SCITT) providers will be allowed to charge £9,250 per trainee after the Department for Education lifted the fee cap - putting them on a par with universities. By Jess Staufenberg, Schools Week.

Damian Hinds MP is considering a plan to force schools that permanently exclude children and place them in a new school or alternative provision to include their exam performance in academic results data. By Rosemary Bennett, The Times.

BBC News looks at whether universities should consider ethnicity in their admissions policies. By Sean Coughlan.

Six young people voice their concerns about further education funding pressures. By Hannah Richardson, BBC News.

A robot from Middlesex University has become the first 'non human' to give evidence at an Education Select Committee hearing, answering questions about the fourth industrial revolution. By John Roberts, Tes.

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