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If done right, a new Ofsted framework would provide significant and positive change to the education system. But as the inspectorate bats aways concerns over the reforms this outcome looks far from certain

If you look in detail at what Rayner said in her speech at Labour conference, you realise academies will live to fight another day

Ofsted is currently subject to much speculation and scrapping. How this will play out is anyone’s guess

Significant concerns about plans to inspect schools’ approach to the curriculum are being raised – including at the DfE

Schools face a near-impossible expectation to close the ‘disadvantage gap’, but the education secretary has brought parents’ responsibility to the fore, writes Ed Dorrell

The teacher pay issue is only part of the problem – schools need funds to fix leaking roofs and avoid redundancies, writes Ed Dorrell