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In seven years at the helm of the ASCL, Geoff Barton has been one of education’s most prominent figureheads – but now, embarking on a new challenge, he tells Tes that he sees himself very differently to his public image

Here’s everything schools need to know about today’s Budget announcement

Tes has crunched numbers, dug out data and analysed DfE decisions to provide multi-academy trusts with information to help plan their organisation’s future

Labour’s education whip in the Lords reflects on her ‘revolutionary’ primary teacher, why she switched pop song-writing for the classroom, and the frustration of government interference

But a headteachers’ leader warns that few schools would benefit from the ‘bizarre’ proposal for utilising space left empty by falling pupil rolls

The multi-academy trust chief talks to Tes about being the first in his family not to work down a pit and his pride in helping to turn around schools in ‘meltdown’