Features

Introducing… Caron Johnson

Caron Johnson arrived to change alternative provision, and it changed her. After taking her school straight to ‘outstanding’, she...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Introducing…Marcus Shepherd

Marcus Shepherd fell in love with teaching by accident and was a principal at just 27. He tells Jess...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Interview: Julian Drinkall

Julian Drinkall took on the biggest trust turnaround job going. Here he talks about constraints, innovation, bravery – and...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Introducing… Daisy Cooper

Solving special educational needs provision and scrapping SATs are just a few policies firmly in the sights of ambitious...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

‘You have to not look like you’re giving up’

Jess Staufenberg talks to the trust boss the government threatened to sue, who values autonomy and wellbeing for her...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Introducing… Sarah Lewis

The Department for Education’s former director of schools was in the hot seat during the free school meals voucher...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Dame Rachel de Souza, children’s commissioner

Almost seven years after Schools Week first profiled Rachel de Souza, we return to find out what she wants...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Can the government fix the ‘confusing’ careers landscape?

The skills white paper sets the lofty ambition of a “clear, all-age careers system”. Will a former academic be...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Introducing… Lisa Mannall

The straight-talking chief executive at Cornwall Education Learning Trust opens up about two years as a regional schools commissioner...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg