According to think tank Education Policy Institute (EPI), the attainment gap between the poorest children and their GCSE classmates will take a century to close. By Rosemary Bennett, The Times.

Read a comment piece by David Laws, executive chairman of EPI and schools minister between 2012 and 2015.

Schools Week details the areas with the biggest disadvantage gap.

iNews includes two articles focusing on A-level results - one details the need-to-knows on degree apprenticeships and the other advises students on how to prepare for results day. By Richard Vaughan.

The Telegraph looks into the success of free schools, which were introduced by the last coalition government in a bid to raise standards and increase school places. By Sophie Inge.

Following the Government's announcement yesterday on teacher pay arrangements, Schools Week details what schools need to know. By Freddie Whittaker.

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, writes in Tes on the subject of teacher pay.

The Department for Education and Department of Health have confirmed that mental health support teams will be place in schools “by December 2019". By Freddie Whittaker, Schools Week.

The Commons' Education Committee has warned schools that are failing to keep on challenging pupils are showing a “lack of moral accountability”. By Eleanor Busby, The Independent.

According to a historian, today's students are far more well behaved than their 18th-century counterparts. By Rosemary Bennett, The Times.

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