Opinion

Sorry, Mr Slater, schools can’t make any more savings

This week Jonathan Slater, the head of the education department, said that if the bottom 75 per cent of...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Alison Peacock, CEO, Chartered College of Teaching

According to documents squirrelled away on the Charities Commission website, the new (and not uncontroversial) Chartered College of Teaching...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

When did schools ban corporal punishment?

There is a division running rife through the Schools Week office and it’s not just which radio station we...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Tests for sale makes a mockery of selection

Where, exactly, is the line of “this has gone too far”? That’s a question teachers have to consider almost...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Why we didn’t do the ‘disadvantage’ school league tables this year…

For the past two years Schools Week won love for publishing annual tables of schools getting great outcomes for...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

1 in 5 sixth form colleges starts academy conversion process

A fifth of sixth form colleges have already sent formal proposals to convert to academy status, the academies minister...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

The long and the short of school uniforms

Last week a school in Kent gained national headlines for sending home girls whose skirts were deemed as too...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Steve Taylor, executive headteacher, Robin Hood primary academy

On an unremarkable road in Hall Green, on the outskirts of Birmingham city centre, sits a small brick hut...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

We can see mentally ill pupils, but what do we do?

I once cried on the tube in London. Tears dripped down my face, an inconsolable stream barely contained by...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney