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Covid has made many teachers reconsider the fundamental purpose of education. Can it really be measured by Ofsted grades and league tables, asks Stephen Tierney

Pause inspections and instead think about how accountability and school improvement ought to work, urges Stephen Tierney

Without austerity and endless structural reform, he would have been much more successful, writes one celebrated head

The government’s school funding plans fall short, says Stephen Tierney – here he explains what it really needs to do

GCSE results day often sends headteachers into a spin – when what is needed is a measured reaction, says Stephen Tierney

‘Curriculum is inexorable; frameworks are transitory,’ says Stephen Tierney. So will someone point out that the emperor has no clothes?