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As budgets are squeezed, entrepreneurial headteachers – or ‘headtrepreneurs’ – are turning to business donations and sponsorship to help them balance the books. But is this something all schools can replicate – and should they even try? Simon Creasey reports

The rapper, campaigner and founder of the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company tells Simon Creasey why he feels young people are being failed by education policy and a national curriculum that are not fit for purpose

In the battle to ensure their children are receiving the right provision, the burden of navigating the system has fallen to parents. Simon Creasey looks for a better way

US Psychology professor Zach Hambrick questions if the role of ‘deliberate practice’ in expertise has been overstated

The ‘iGen’ generation currently moving through the school system is showing worrying signs of depression and an unwillingness to take risks. If we don’t help students to build their capacity for self-determination, they will be totally unprepared for adulthood, the US psychologist tells Simon Creasey

Many argue that schools should undertake more cross-curricular learning in Stem subjects to reflect the collaboration pupils will encounter in the world of work