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This week on the��Tes��News podcast the team reflect on the major education policies to emerge from the Conservative Party conference this week -��and what plans for schools Labour could announce at its conference next week.

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On Wednesday prime minister Rishi Sunak signalled his intention to transform post-16 education, announcing a plan to scrap��A levels and T levels in exchange for a new Advanced British Standard.

Mr Sunak said that under the new qualification, all students would study a form of maths and English to 18, and pledged a new cash injection to improve teacher recruitment and retention in shortage subjects to make his vision a reality.��

But Labour’s shadow schools minister,��Catherine McKinnell, in her first speech since taking on the role, and referencing the school buildings concrete crisis, accused Mr Sunak of announcing a “back-of-the-envelope 16-19 maths policy” while “roofs up and down the country are literally propped up”.

Join��Tes’��deputy news editor, John Roberts, and news reporter Matilda Martin, speaking from the Confederation of Schools Trusts’ (CST) conference, as they reflect on what schools learned from the Conservative Party conference in Manchester and what will be announced at the Labour conference in Liverpool next week.

News from the Conservative Party conference:

• Barran: Each school should get a DfE attendance “deep dive”’
• Teaching becoming a “military-style tour of duty”, warns charity boss
• DfE looking at how AI can tackle inequality in education
• Keegan mobile ban “unnecessary”��and “desperate”, say unions
• Maths to 18: Beware “unintended consequences”, warns ex-DfE adviser
• Sunak: Advanced British Standard to replace A levels
• Sunak’s A-level plan drawn up on “back of an envelope”

Here’s what else schools need to know this week:

• Schools face “rising tide of mistrust,” warns CST leader
• Concern for 7,000 pupils on free school meals at RAAC-hit schools
• School budgets “stagnate”��as increased costs use up funding
• Labour’s education mission: all you need to know