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Claims that the ‘North-South divide’ in student attainment is down to poor school leadership and weak teaching could be used to drive the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda. But research suggests such arguments may be flawed – and that the real culprit is long-term economic deprivation. John Morgan reports

The impact of the Covid pandemic has led many in teaching to look again at their profession and ponder some big questions: are children being taught what they need to know? What is education actually for? And how should we measure its true value? John Morgan goes in search of the answers

An anthropologist, who spent months living with the BaYaka community in the Congo, says the way their children pick up skills tells us a lot about the evolution of learning – and offers lessons for schools in the UK, writes John Morgan

While the vast majority of people will get vaccinated against Covid-19, a sizeable minority will choose not to, and that may bring problems for school leaders. John Morgan explores what role schools may be forced to play in the vaccination roll out over the coming months and discovers that empathy and understanding may be key to navigating this complex issue

Is there a psychopath lurking in your staffroom? The signs will be more subtle than a colleague wielding an axe, finds John Morgan, who discovers that the control inherent in teaching may bring out some people’s dysfunctional, manipulative behaviours

It’s said to be ‘what makes us so smart as a species’ and a key factor in children’s rapid pace of learning, so how do we best harness the analogy’s pedagogical power? John Morgan finds out