Oli de Botton: Involving parents in education is good but leaving schools in their care risks favouring the interests of the pushier ones

Oli de Botton: Children benefit from having teachers with different experiences – and some ex-City workers could fit the bill

Oli de Botton: If Ofsted wants a crackdown on dull school lessons, it should give teachers the space to be creative

Oli de Botton: The decision to intervene is critical. Educational professionals and members of the community alike must play their part

Oli de Botton: Structure doesn't matter as much as we think: the quality of our schools is only as good as the quality of our teachers

Oli de Botton: A miasma of moral panic about knife crime has obscured the source of the problem - that we have too long tolerated ghettos of social exclusion

Oli de Botton: Ed Balls is right: we need to see children in the round if we're going to solve the problems associated with educational underachievement

Oli de Botton: The government seems finally to be changing our exam system, which has been irrelevant and unfair for far too long.

Oli de Botton: Tony Blair need look no further for his greatest legacy: under New Labour the teaching profession has been transformed.