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If there’s one thing that riles Jules White, it’s the government’s refusal to acknowledge the funding crisis in education. Here the Sussex headteacher, who leads the WorthLess? campaign for more school funding, tells Charlotte Santry how he managed to win the backing of thousands of school leaders across the country, and why it’s important that heads have the confidence to speak out

Last year, Theresa May warned that public sector leaders presiding over racial equality in their organisations had nowhere to hide, but despite this, funding cuts have stalled progress in rebalancing the FE workforce, finds George Ryan

Don’t let your school turn into an echo chamber in which alternative viewpoints are stifled, says one headteacher

For the biggest corporate sponsor of academies, expansion is about more than just raising education standards. Here Frank Norris, the unassuming director of Co-op Academies Trust, talks openly to John Roberts about the MAT’s ethos, its bold plans for growth and what motivated him to ‘go over to the dark side’ earlier in his career

Don’t avoid group work just because you’re worried about getting it wrong, says development psychologist Christine Howe

Direct instruction has been mis-sold, misinterpreted and badly served in education, argues academic Paul Kirschner. And yet, most good teachers, he says, will be doing it without knowing it