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Focus for schools should be on what happens inside the classroom
Response to pressure on charity status faulted by inspector and ex-education minister
Sutton Trust finds ‘Jams’ championed by May struggle to make cut for selective schools
Efforts to raise UK teaching standards have missed the grade, writes Miranda Green
Results of Pisa survey show ongoing strength of Asian and northern European countries
Some institutions have been pursuing their own attempts to improve access to education
Helping disadvantaged pupils and families to see university as an option is vital
Another FT-er who went back to school, on ‘golden moments’ and dodgy staffroom coffee
Counter-extremism unit intervenes over Trump-supporter’s planned appearance
Now Teach venture pioneered by FT columnist Lucy Kellaway will retrain people
Parental goals include apprenticeships and steady jobs, government commission finds
Emerging inequalities in Britain need specific and targeted solutions
Grammar schools will make situation worse, says government commission
Notebook: Simply talking to each other helps beat cultural tensions
Richardson attacks proposals for universities to set up feeder schools
Trust chiefs pour cold water on May’s proposals to bring back selection
Academic selection ‘ultimately becomes social selection’, says expert at group of developed nations
No Nobel laureate or chess grandmaster can out-think an upper-middle-class couple trying to rig life for its spawn
Two former education secretaries among those against reintroduction of selective state schools
Selection has been one of the most contentious and divisive issues of postwar education policy
PM hopes to get to ‘root of problem’ for poor children
The focus on UK social mobility is welcome, but this is the wrong solution
Prime minister champions grammar system but critics argue reforms will damage social mobility