• The Conservatives are likely to propose scrapping appeals panels in the wake of a pupil's expulsion in an education bill this autumn. A new paper by the Institute of Education highlights how the headteacher's decision is overturned in just 2% of cases of permanent exclusion and cites how the process constitutes a safeguard for the high numbers of pupils from ethnic minorities and on free school meals who are expelled. Guardian


• The problem of school lunches: no longer their quality but that so many pupils who would benefit from eating them don't bother. Take up rates are 39.3% in primary schools and 35.1% at secondary level. The Chair of the School Food Trust wants school food subsidised - 'all meals for £1' pilots have increased take up - otherwise many children will continue to eat the cheapest food, takeaways and sweets. Guardian

• A Cabinet dispute may be triggered by Theresa May's announced plans to curb the number of overseas students - their numbers rose by a third last year. Michael Gove and David Willetts have privately warned - and Vince Cable publicly - about how Britain's competitiveness and reputation may be hit by too inflexible a cap. Guardian


• Over the last year, there has been a 36% increase in the number of students between 17 and 25 registering for Open University courses, the Guardian investigates what about the 'grey university' is suddenly so appealing. Guardian


• Peter Wilby speaks to Terence Kealey, vice-Chancellor of Buckingham university who thinks that all schools should be private and that free education for all pupils has been a disaster. He tells Wilby about why state funded science contributes nothing to economic growth and why universities should reject state money to decide what courses and how many students to teach. Guardian


• All age careers services perform well in delivering access and quality and the coalition government's plans to develop a much stronger careers service for adults is underway and contracts confirmed. Yet young people's services are at risk of being decimated. Guardian


• A former scholarship holder urges the Foreign Office to retain the Chevening programme which fully or partly funds 1,000 individuals from over 130 countries to study in Britain every year. Guardian

• George Osborne has said that decisions about how specific welfare bills will be cut will be made this summer. He hopes to reduce the number of people on incapacity benefit, which costs the taxpayer £12.5 billion a year and has sped up testing to 10,000 people a week to determine how many genuinely need state help. Telegraph


• A report has been released which Labour refused to publish. It discloses that Labour's £224million database ContactPoint, which held details of all under-18s in the country along with their parents, schools and GPs, contained 'significant risks' to security. The Deloitte report commented that the IT security did not reach a 'recognised standard'. Telegraph


• Frank Field has said that more emphasis needs to be put on getting fathers on the payroll so they can reprise their role as breadwinners. He said that the reason there were so many single mums - leading to the last government's obsession with getting single mothers into work - was that there were so many single dads who were unable to fulfil what mothers want from a partner and children from a father. Telegraph


• More than a third of parents plan to supply their 16 or 17 year old with alcohol to celebrate finishing exams; more than half have said they will buy their sons and daughters five or more bottles of wine or spirits. A crackdown has been launched this month in Newquay following two deaths of post-exam revellers last year. Telegraph


• A WHO target to reduce the number of caesarean births to one in eight set around 20 years ago has been quietly dropped in its latest handbook for obstetric care. One in four babies in Britain are born by Caesarean. The Royal College of Midwives say that women who have natural births generally have better outcomes but some doctors quoted by the Times say that pressure to reduce the number of Caesareans may have more to do with the cost of the procedure. Times


• David Cameron has spoken out to say that because the UK has historically been one of the richest countries on earth, people are under the 'delusion' that it will always remain so. Instead, he stated that 'the world doesn't owe us a living' and that future prosperity had to be ensured by efforts to 'reboot and rebuild' the economy. Telegraph


• The Guardian publishes an extended excerpt from Zoe Williams' new book on parenthood. Guardian

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