The Joint Council for Qualifications has specified private tutors should not be permitted to act as scribes in GCSE and A-level exams, following allegations they had been used to cheat. By Camilla Turner, The Telegraph.

Tes provides an analysis of the backgrounds of some of Boris Johnson's recent appointments, in an attempt to forecast future education policy. By Ed Dorrell.

Writing in The Telegraph, Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher and founder of Michaela Community School, outlines ways the Government can improve UK schools to enable them to deliver the best possible education.

The exam results of 78 pupils are currently being "withheld" while the Edexcel exam board determines whether they may have benefited from the leak of an A-level maths paper earlier in the year. By Will Hazell, Tes.

The next spending review will focus on the 2020-21 school year, with the Treasury stating that school funding for the 2019-20 school year has already been set. By Martin George, Tes.

According to a YouGov survey commissioned by Humanists UK, 50 per cent of people in Britain believe it is 'not appropriate' for acts of worship to take place in state school assemblies. By Pippa Allen-Kinross, Schools Week.

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