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Parents like Ofsted. They rely on it, even. Any campaign to change the inspectorate needs their support if it is to succeed

Despite the explosion of education research in recent years, the distance between researchers and teachers is greater than ever, warns Karen Wespieser. Here, she argues that academics need to build better links with schools so that their research makes a real difference

One education researcher explains that when she bumped into Theresa May at a local fete yesterday, she felt she had no opportunity but to have a word – for the kids