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The question for Labour is who is best placed to win in 2020, says Andy Burnham As someone who held positions as a special adviser, a minister and a secretary of state in the last Labour government it might be tempting for Andy Burnham to distance himself from New...

After an education-free election, schools are back. Nicky Morgan wants to do more about ‘coasting’ schools, all the Labour leadership contenders are talking about aspiration, and Liz Kendall has offered a more nuanced approach to free schools. The attention is...

So the free schools charade continues. Forget about the ‘chaos’ at the Al-Madinah free school, where schools inspectorate Ofsted had to create a new ‘dysfunctional’ category just to score it within its framework. Disregard the debacle of the IES Breckland school in...

Every parent wants their child to have the best start in life, school standards are therefore an emotive issue. Many people tell me they want some issues to be taken out of politics. Why can’t we just agree on the best way to run our schools so that time is not wasted...