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As the Isle of Wight replaces its middle and high schools with academies and trusts, those in senior roles – typically, older teachers – fear they will be put out to grass as heads struggle to make ends meet. And, as Hannah Frankel reports, it’s not only on the island that experience is becoming an unaffordable luxury.

Space may have been the final frontier to Captain Kirk but nothing could be further from the truth for the increasing number of pupils who are embracing astronomy, as Hannah Frankel reports.

The TV presenter credits a `hard-as-nails’ jazz dance teacher for her drive to succeed

The new head would observe me every week.

Pupils who hide behind the anonymity of the internet to humiliate and insult – or even threaten – their teachers can leave lives in tatters.

Stuck between anxious parents struggling to cope and a bureaucratic SEN system, teachers of children with special needs often face a communications breakdown that can end in antipathy – and even court action.