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• Targets 'risk pupil well-being'
  Pupils' well-being and education should not be sacrificed to meet new targets, the leader of a head teachers' union tells its annual conference.
• Minister heckled by head teachers
  Education Secretary Michael Gove receives one of the angriest receptions of his three years in office as he appears before head teachers in Birmingham.
• Academy group expense 'extravagance'
  A leading academy chain has been criticised for widespread financial irregularities in an official report.
• Phones 'used like digital dummies'
  Computers and smartphones have become a "digital dummy" used by parents to pacify their children, says a head teachers' leader.
• Graduate social workers fast-tracked
  Graduates on a new fast-track scheme for trainee social workers will co-handle caseloads after just five weeks of intensive initial training.
• Childcare costs will be tackled - PM
  David Cameron indicates he is ready to compromise over changes to childcare, after concerns were raised by Lib Dem coalition partners.
• Schools 'struggle to find heads'
  Analysis suggests schools are facing an uphill battle to recruit head teachers, with one in four having to re-advertise jobs.
• Hundreds of jobs for new teachers
  Unemployed new teachers in Northern Ireland will be able to apply for hundreds of extra jobs in the next few weeks.
• Fall in young learning after 17
  Fewer young people are still learning after 17, survey suggests
• Brain stimulation maths boost link
  Applying high-frequency electrical noise to the brain can boost maths skills up to six months later, say Oxford University researchers.
• 'Quarter of a million' young carers
  Nearly a quarter of a million children in England and Wales are caring for a relative, new statistics just released show.
• Social workers' fears over changes
  Social workers are warning changes being brought in to speed up adoption and the family courts might be bad for the welfare of some children.