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Shane Mann is managing director
Shane is the managing director of Lsect, the publisher of Schools Week and FE Week, and managing editor of Schools Week. He is responsible for the for overall management and performance of the organisation, and is also the Festival Director of of the prestigious Festival of Education.
John Dickens is editor
John was appointed editor in September 2018 after returning to the company from a year-long sabbatical where he did a spot of travelling (the only rule was he had to shave off the Cast Away-style beard he had grown over the 12 months).
Prior to this he was chief reporter at the newspaper which he joined in 2015. Along the way he’s picked up various awards including Outstanding National Education Journalist of the Year in 2016 and Most Promising Newcomer to Education Journalism in his first year with us.
When not working, John will almost definitely be cycling or watching cricket.
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Laura McInerney is contributing editor
Laura McInerney is contributing editor. She held the position of editor from January 2015 until the end of 2017. Prior to that she taught in East London for six years, wrote a book in 2011, The 6 Predictable Failures of Free Schools…and How To Avoid Them, and became a regular columnist for The Guardian.
Laura’s superpowers include encyclopedic knowledge of past education secretaries and the ability to stop a year 9 boy in his tracks with just a stare.
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Jean-Louis Dutaut is commissioning editor
JL had a ‘sliding doors’ moment 15 years ago when a fledgling career on the production desk of a magazine slipped onto an alternate timeline, and he found himself in a classroom instead.
In the intervening decade and a half, JL has taught and held a variety of middle leadership positions in Further Education and in secondary schools, and been a governor at an infants’ school. He has published a book on teacher professionalism and been commissioned by unions and think tanks to research topics ranging from accountability to higher education access.
Having come full circle, and now as commissioning editor, JL is committed to making depth and diversity the hallmarks of the features in Schools Week and FE Week, and giving a voice to the teachers and lecturers he still considers his colleagues.
Freddie Whittaker is chief reporter
Freddie has been writing about public policy for most of his career, initially as a senior reporter for the Gloucester Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo, and then as the Oxford Mail’s political and local government reporter.
He joined our sister paper, FE Week, in January 2014, and moved to the Schools Week team in August 2015, becoming the paper’s political reporter in January 2016.
Appointed chief reporter in August 2017, Freddie still covers the politics beat, and can often be found tweeting furiously from windowless press rooms at political party and trade union conferences.
He is also a regular contributor to the New Statesman on education policy and political issues.
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Pippa Allen-Kinross is senior reporter
Pippa joined the company in September 2017, and spent time working across both Schools Week and sister paper FE Week before becoming a permanent fixture on the schools side. She was named most promising newcomer to education journalism in at the CIPR Education Journalism Awards in 2018.
Before joining the world of education, Pippa worked as a local news reporter in London, first covering Merton in south London for the Wimbledon Guardian and then Tower Hamlets and Canary Wharf in east London for The Wharf newspaper. She is NQJ qualified and has also freelanced at the Mirror Online and Sky News.
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Kathryn Snowdon is senior reporter
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Neil Stott
March 7, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Great news that the Education Secretary Justine Greening has said that children from the age of four will be taught about safe and healthy relationships and that age-appropriate lessons will have emphasis on what constitutes a healthy relationship, the dangers of sexting, online pornography and sexual harassment.
But as very recently-retired former Deputy Headteacher of a large 11-18 Academy responsible for curriculum, staffing timetabling and Safeguarding, I wonder who will teach these topics and more importantly will they be equipped with the skills, confidence and knowledge required to do it well.
Figures recently released by the Schools Minister Nick Gibb show that just 54 citizenship teachers (the staff who often deliver Personal, Social and Health Education – PSHE) have been trained this past academic year, compared with 112 in 2014-15 and 243 in 2010-11.
When constructing a timetable for 1800 students and over 100 teachers with the emphasis on results in Maths, English and every other subject that make up the new performance measures, the reality is that anything that does not count is the last thing that schools and academies will staff.
The teaching of PSHE will often be assigned to whichever teacher has space on their weekly timetables, regardless of their subject specialism.
Some schools get around this by making PSHE part of tutor time where all form teachers squeeze its delivery into a short time frame, in addition to their daily administrative tasks.
As any young person, who has left compulsory education, will tell you they vividly remember their first sex education lesson but will usually be less than complimentary about its content and delivery.
They will have learnt more from their peers and as they are more comfortable with technology found “answers” from the Internet.
Future generations, who will not have known a world without social media, will be even more tech savvy and able to find answers for most questions at the click of a button, and will therefore also have less human contact than previous generations.
If they think that what they see online in the form of pornography (the average age of first exposure to pornography is 11 years of age) and discuss with their social media “friends” what they think constitutes a healthy relationship, then our young people will be putting themselves at risk of being ill- informed and ill-equipped for later life, regardless of what they have been taught in schools.
I feel so passionately and concerned about this subject that having just left mainstream education I have established a unique service, called WNTAI (we never talk about it) to educate and inform adults and children about the risks of online pornography.
I hope the planned Government consultation will consider the concerns that we should all have.
James Wren
September 18, 2019 at 8:49 pm
Hi there
4 years ago, I made a comment on this article:
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/contest-aims-to-get-em-young/
But the organisation referenced in my comment no longer exists, but I have no idea how to remove this comment. Might you be able to remove it for me, please?
Thank you very much.
James Wren