Free schools
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The qualities needed to be a good teacherLetters: The term ‘qualified’ is meaningless if it means only that the candidate has qualified teacher status, writes Dr Claire Seymour. Plus Linda Karlsen says comprehensives were key to providing opportunity for all
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More than 600,000 pupils in England taught by unqualified teachers, says LabourParty says many school staff have no guaranteed training in safeguarding children, and standards are at risk
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Britain's strictest school gets top marks from OfstedKatharine Birbalsingh’s notoriously strict Michaela school praised by inspectors for behaviour policy and ‘exemplary’ attitudes to learning among pupils
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Secret Teacher: we need evidence on free schools, not blind faithI was full of optimism when I took a job at a free school, but we couldn’t give students the education they deserved. Politicians must start listening to concerns
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From Nordic-style funding to getting rid of Gove’s free schools, here are good schemes that would actually work to revive the demoralised teaching professionTheresa May is channelling Basil Fawlty with her education policy
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A third of schools in England are underfunded by more than £1mA new report shows that while money has been found to build 500 new free schools, thousands of existing schools do not have enough funds to keep their buildings in a ‘satisfactory’ condition
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MPs condemn free schools policy as incoherent and wastefulReport says DfE must use funding more cost-effectively and notes 60% of schools are more than 40 years old and in disrepair
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Labour focuses on pupils 'crammed into classrooms like sardines'Jeremy Corbyn to speak in Cardiff North about Conservative government’s failures that ‘have left our schools in a terrible state’
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Close the grammar, free and faith schoolsLetters: Offer every child such an excellent education that no one would consider sending their child to a private school or pressure their child into obtaining a grammar-school place
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Free school funding will create fraction of places pledged in budget, says LabourCash Philip Hammond committed for Conservatives’ flagship policy will pay for just 13,000 new places, party claims
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Ministers can no longer ignore protests over the school funding crisisSchools funding must be found for all, not just pet projects | Geoff Barton
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Poorer pupils less likely to get into grammars than richer classmatesAccess to grammar schools is ‘highly skewed’ by a child’s socio-economic background, university study finds
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Grammar schools make no sense educationally, financially or politically – and are based on a lieThe return of the 11-plus is Theresa May’s first real Trump moment
‘Drill and kill’? English schools turn to scripted lessons to raise standards