The reaction to the NHS pay offer shows that relaxing austerity will not be as easy as some imagine

It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.

Henry Smith: We must not lose momentum on supporting early years development

We need to train more teachers if the Government is to ensure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

John Bald: How to stop the nonsense in teacher training

Give trainee teachers much more experience of working with individual children, so that they learn to focus on the person in front of them, and not on what someone else tells them to do.

Kathleen Leslie: The SNP is to blame for the shortage of Scottish teachers

Chaotic implementation of a new curriculum and politicised, bureaucratic systems of inspection and regulation have caused dismay.

J.P.Floru: How to inoculate your children against socialism

What can parents do? Avoid reading Robin Hood as a bedtime story? I asked around, and came up with a few answers.

Sophie Sandor: You want better state schools? Then let them make a profit.

If everyone had the opportunity to attend a private school then, by definition, they couldn’t be elite.

John Bald: A visit to Michaela

Pupils enter the dining hall smiling and loudly reciting Shelley’s Ozymandias.

Ryan Shorthouse: The Tory manifesto should offer loans for childcare and retraining, and better pay for teachers

This second piece of a mini-series on what should be in the manifesto argues that May must show those on modest incomes the good that Government can do.

Mohammed Abdel-Haq: Why preventing the Prevent strategy isn’t an option

A complacent tendency to assume ‘it couldn’t happen here’ is hindering necessary efforts to confront the challenge of domestic extremism.

John Bald: Morgan’s challenge to the bureaucratic burdens on teachers is overdue

The paperwork culture has grown up because people in positions of authority in education have found it to their advantage.

John Bald: The Blob is really an octopus

Educational standards are undermined by a network that is still powerful within Ofsted and teacher training colleges.

Calvin Robinson: We need to recruit and retain more teachers. Here’s how.

There’s plenty of room for innovation in education. It’s a sector held back by a vocal minority’s fear of change.