SCHOOLS could be forced to open only four days a week due to lack of government funding, teachers and MPs warned yesterday as new cuts to the sector were announced.

The Treasury clawed back £384 million from the education budget yesterday after its plan to force schools to become academies was torpedoed by MPs.

The government had made extra cash available to fund “academisation” of all schools. But with strong opposition from Labour and some backbench Tories, the plan was dropped.