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More than a third of the MPs elected in May were privately educated, while the new Parliament contains 20 Old Etonians. So what is it about the independent sector that furnishes young people with the qualities required for high office?

Cover Story: The new government claims there will be hundreds of new academies by September. Should you be one of them? Hannah Frankel reports

Generally, his teachers dismissed his cycling ambitions, but one treated the future Olympic champ with respect and compassion

Training in restraint techniques, once the preserve of special-school staff, is now being taken up by those who teach in the mainstream. Hannah Frankel sat in as primary teachers got to grips with ‘appropriate force’

Ofsted has done five revisions of its guidance on complying with its contentious requirements on `safeguarding’, but heads say inspectors are still focused on trivial misdemeanours that can jeopardise a school’s ranking.

If the Ministry of Defence gets its way, more ex-forces personnel will bring their own brand of discipline to classrooms. Hannah Frankel talks to those who have made the teaching transition