Nick Clegg to divide with Tories over education policy

Nick Clegg will dramatically disown key "ideological" planks of the coalition's education policy in a speech this week.

The Deputy Prime Minister is to open dividing lines with the Tories by insisting all teachers should be qualified, and the national curriculum should be taught in every school.

"It is Lib Dem policy to give all schools, whether they are academies or not, those same freedoms to attract and reward excellent teaching, set their own term dates and vary their school day," the Liberal Democrat leader will say.