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The country’s biggest secondary heads’ union has said there is no need to take any control over admissions away from academies.

Politicians and Ofsted tell us that there is a North-South divide in school performance – but this ignores the impact of social deprivation on achievement, writes William Stewart. With policymakers fixated on geography, they are in danger of failing to tackle the real problems faced by schools

As multi-academy trusts become prevalent, their CEOs are wielding more top-down control over supposedly autonomous schools than local authorities ever did