BBC Breakfast

Nicky Morgan says there are millions of children in this country "who are doing well, but could do better". Presenter Bill Turnbull sneaks in a last question: "So what is 11x12?". That question comes a day after it was announced that under Tory plans all children in England will be expected to know up to their 12 times table when they leave primary school. Ms Morgan refuses to answer.

BBC Breakfast

More from Education Secretary Nicky Morgan: "This is not about saying that heads would automatically be replaced..." she says of new Conservative education plans. "That might be one of the answers," she adds. "It is about that collaboration, about schools working together for the best."

BBC Breakfast

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has joined BBC Breakfast from Westminster. She tells the programme letting children have the best start in life means "where a school doesn't have the capacity to improve itself... then one of the answers might be to get new leadership in".

BBC Radio 4 Today

As David Cameron prepares to outline new Tory plans for an "all-out war on mediocrity" on schools that could see thousands more become academies, Alasdair Smith of the National Secretary at the Anti-Academies Alliance tells the Today programme: "There is not a single scrap of evidence that academy status improves our education system".

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It's the fallout from the Greek election which troubles the Financial Times., external The economist-turned-finance minister seeking to renegotiate Greece's huge debt obligations says his priority is the well-being of all Europeans and has ruled out accepting more bailout cash. After talks with his French counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis said a new debt deal was needed within months. Mr Varoufakis is in London on Monday for similar talks with the UK Chancellor George Osborne.

BBC Radio 4 Today

There's only one place in the country where voters know what it is like to vote for and get a Green party in charge. Brighton on the south coast has the first Green MP to sit at Westminster, and the UK's first Green council - albeit a minority-led administration.

The council has come in for some fierce criticism over the last few years. And now there are some fears that that criticism could hurt the party's chances of winning seats in May's general election.

As part of Today's focus on 100 constituencies in the 100 days ahead of that election, chief correspondent Matthew Price went to Brighton, where he rather regretted "going green" in the city's new cycle lanes.

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And again away from schools, the Guardian, external leads on a council's warning about a new policy which it says makes developers less likely to build affordable housing.

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The Daily Mail leads on anger in the party, external at concern expressed by the tycoon who runs the Boots chain that the party is "anti-business". Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna said people could decide if a businessman who did not live in the UK or pay British taxes could determine what was in the country's interest.

Norman Smith
BBC Assistant Political Editor

Ed Miliband's plans to cut tuition fees are in "some difficultly", our correspondent says. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has not been able to identify a suitable money-raising measure to fund the plan, he adds.

BBC Radio 4 Today

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Education stories lead a trio of broadsheets on Monday - and our full round-up is live. The Daily Telegraph says "thousands" of schools could be taken over, external by the government in an "all-out war on mediocrity". The Independent's front highlights what it calls the "drop-out generation", external - the 178,000 teenagers who flunk courses, wasting £800m of government money. Meanwhile higher education is the focus of the Times. The paper carries a letter from university vice-chancellors, external (paywall) worried about the Labour leader's ambition to reduce tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000.

Meanwhile Labour have come under fire from leading universities who have described the party's plans to cut the tuition fees cap from £9,000 to £6,000 as "implausible".

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David Cameron will make a speech later today in which he will say that thousands more schools could be taken over by academy chains if the Conservatives win the election. In a speech designed to set out the Tories' agenda for school improvements after the election, Mr Cameron will say any school rated as "requires improvement" by government inspectors - currently about 3,500 schools - will automatically be forced to become an academy unless it can show a clear plan for rapid improvement. Labour say raising standards depends on making sure that schools have qualified teaching staff.

We may get more detail from the Conservatives today on what they might be pledging, education-wise, in their manifesto after Nicky Morgan's indication on the Andrew Marr Show, that spending will be protected on schools for five to 16-year-olds. In what looks set to be a regular thing in the run up to the election there will be a fair number of speeches and visits from senior politicians. There is also going to be a Sky News/Facebook interactive leaders debate from noon.

Alex Hunt
Politics editor, BBC News Online

Hello and welcome to a fresh day's coverage of political developments ahead of the 7 May General Election. There are now 94 days to go. You'll be able to listen or watch all the BBC's political output today on this page and we'll be bringing you all the best clips, quotes, analysis, reaction and breaking political news throughout the day. If you want to catch up with what happened on Sunday, here's yesterday's campaign countdown.