It seeped into every classroom and subsumed any attempt to destroy it. But the education establishment has met its match in Michael Gove

The Education Secretary wants every child to have the chance to climb the ladder, just as he did — hence his reforms will go ahead

The indefatigable enemy of education reform is making the job of free school champions easier

‘There is such a shortage of places in London that schools will soon have to start teaching in shifts—as they are forced to in developing countries’