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Teachers are to be offered cash incentives to stick with the profession as part of the government’s strategy to increase the number of people working in the sector.

Schools will get £400 million in extra capital funding this year, the chancellor has announced. Mr Hammond said the government was "investing record amounts in our schools", but acknowledged that "school’s budgets do not stretch to that extra bit of kit that would make such a difference".

Teachers are to be offered up to a year’s paid sabbatical, in a bid to improve retention rates in the profession. In an address to more than 350 school leaders in Liverpool, education secretary Damian Hinds will announce the £5m scheme.

Theresa May has unveiled a new China-UK education deal as she arrived in Wuhan for her first state visit to the country. The education initiative will see the extension of a “pioneering” maths teacher exchange programme, according to the British government.

The education secretary Justine Greening has quit government after being moved from her post in yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle.

Teachers across England and Wales face a seventh consecutive year of a 1% pay increase based on the recommendation of a review body’s analysis of earnings.