Curriculum documents are strange things. At their worst, they’re dead paper: worthy phrases, careful compromises and lists of dry content.

In many countries, school evaluations take into account the average progress their students make on standardised tests relative to their peers.

There was a time when a Labour government saw independent schools as central to delivering its education strategy.

The Department for Education’s new Enrichment Framework is a welcome recognition that education extends beyond the classroom.

Today the Education Committee launches a new inquiry on school reform, after the government announced major proposals for reform in February’s Schools White Paper.

New guidance on communicating with parents about absence leaves schools with the ‘all but impossible’ task of improving attendance without being able to hold families to account, warn leaders.