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The education secretary has just executed a screeching handbrake turn on school accountability. But what’s behind the change?

Rayner says current system is ‘not fit for purpose’ and uses ‘Nick Gibb bingo’ to ridicule government focus on phonics

The departing national schools commissioner says he has achieved what he set out to and suggests there is a positive side to the school funding crisis

William Stewart unpicks the education secretary’s language on school funding

Some areas have seen an alarming increase in racial segregation in schools this century. Now the government says it wants to do something to tackle the problem. But what would work and is anyone prepared to grasp the nettle?

DfE commissioned research finds that 22 per cent of teachers think its ok to put pressure on parents take their child out of school