• An author of the biggest study of primary schools in four decades, the Cambridge Review, highlights its 11 post-election policy priorities. The most disturbing response he encounters is teachers unwilling to take on the review's recommendations without Ofsted permission. Guardian


• In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, 31 heads and governors express support for Conservative plans to give high-performing state schools autonomy from as early as September this year. This is the first time state heads have spoken out collectively in favour of Tory policy. Telegraph


• Becta, the government agency for technology in education, has told English secondary schools to provide online reports for all pupils by September. Primary schools will have to do the same by 2012. Schools explain how they are rising to the challenge. Guardian


• The Guardian 'Reality Check' the incendiary remarks of a Conservative council leader against his party's 'free schools' policy. Guardian


• The Guardian's education factfile exposes Labour's education record by detailing the proportion of young people with no qualifications, and with a degree, in each area. Guardian

• Eight British universities are accused of putting undue pressure on students in an attempt to boost their institutions' scores in the £2.2m National Student Survey. Complaints were received and investigated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Guardian


• Over a third of Labour candidates and MPs from England's 533 constituencies have signed up to the NUS pledge to oppose any attempt to lift the cap on fees. In bids to win over student constituencies particularly, 1000 candidates, 400 of whom are Liberal Democrats, have signed up. Telegraph


• Cambridge academics explain their fears of proposed reforms which will change the grounds for the dismissal of academics. Rules for dismissal which date from the Reformation would be changed to make them subject to the same redundancy proceedings as non-academic staff at the university. Guardian


• A campaigns director for Jewish students argues that the legal provisions protecting freedom of speech are proved to be inadequate by the incitements to racial hatred made by so many campus speakers. Guardian


• A court hears the case of Peter Harvey, who denies the attempted murder of a 14 year old pupil. Guardian


• The election on campus: will this be the Liberal Democrats' prize? Guardian

• The parties are talking about family and social policy on the election trail today. Labour will say Tory policy amounts to a 'coalition of cuts for children' and David Cameron will focus on the 'broken society' - a 'whole stew of violence, anti-social behaviour, debt, addiction, family breakdown, educational failure'. BBC


• Big Issue founder John Bird discusses the barriers to bringing the poorest out of poverty: social security which inhibits social mobility; the watering down of education as teachers fulfil joint roles as social workers, and the ever greater encroachment of consumerism. Guardian


• A midwife has been suspended from Aberdeen Maternity Hospital over allegations that babies were harmed in her care. Mail

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