ISC Daily News Summary

The Girls’ School Association (GSA) has said that initial figures suggest more parents are opting to keep their daughters in same-sex schools for sixth form in the wake of the Everyone's Invited movement. Donna Stevens, the chief executive of the GSA, said: “It just might make them think twice – 'this could be a bit of a risk, and actually she’s happy where she is'." By Will Hazell, iNews.

Columnist Simon Kelner writes for iNews naming Samantha Price, president of the Girls’ School Association and headmistress of Benenden School the "unlikely champion for woke young people everywhere".

Nadhim Zahawi has said that anti-vaccine protests outside school gates should be a matter for the police and that these demonstrations “will not be tolerated”. By Zoe Tidman, The Independent.

Writing in The Independent, shadow education secretary Kate Green outlines Labour’s campaign to "ensure every young person leaves education ready for work and ready for life".

Research carried out by Edurio, which conducts surveys for schools, has found a correlation between pupil wellbeing and school Ofsted ratings, with those at 'outstanding' institutions feeling the most overworked and worried. By Emma Yeomans, The Times.

Geraint Jones, the executive director and associate pro-vice-chancellor of the National School of Education and Teaching at Coventry University, writes for Tes outlining three key changes needed to keep new teachers in education.

A co-operation deal between Labour and Plaid Cymru has pledged free schools meals to all primary school pupils in Wales within three years. BBC News.

iNews interviews Alan Valera-Sheppard, a gay primary school teacher who grew up under Section 28, a clause of the Local Government Act which banned schools and councils in England and Wales from “promoting” homosexuality from 1986 to 2003. By Jasmine Andersson.