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Heads are being forced to muck in – much like leaders of small schools have been doing for years, says Michael Merrick

The growing belief that the concept of social mobility is an attack on working-class values threatens to divide our education system along academic and vocational lines, warns Michael Merrick. It would be a tragedy if young people were denied access to our wonderful shared cultural inheritance

The concept of ambition has become distorted by its relationship with social mobility, argues Michael Merrick, with the university obsession risking disenfranchising students from a working-class background

Our education must be human first and data-driven second.

Teacher Michael Merrick looks at whether the most efficient teaching method is always the best

Universities are experiencing a phenomenon whereby students are prescribing a ‘community’ viewpoint and shutting down all expression they dislike. One head of RE asks what part schools have played in this unhealthy predicament