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We need to create a more realistic working environment for teachers – their mental health and general wellbeing will improve as a result, and that will trickle down to their pupils, writes one celebrated head

Calls for an agriculture GCSE are all well and good, but the system isn’t set up for such change, says Bernard Trafford

Schools are damned if they do and damned if they don’t, writes one educationalist. But it doesn’t matter, because school uniforms are here to stay

Education is for pupils, not the school. Results belong to the student, not the institution – preventing students from continuing to A level because of their grades is wrong, writes Dr Bernard Trafford

Being popular at school doesn’t always lead to success in later life, according to new research – and this is something that students should consider, writes Dr Bernard Trafford

The job of teaching is already tough enough without forcing teachers to treat their pupils like consumers who give ‘secret shopper’-style feedback