Opinion

How Labour can turn The Wasted Years into The Ambitious Years

Key stage 3 provision has improved but is too often used as a rehearsal for GCSEs, rather than being...

Freddie Whittaker
Mary Myatt
Opinion

AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker
Professor Haili Hughes
Exams

Cyber-attacks, exam fees and digital vision…meet the new head of Cambridge OCR

Myles McGinley talks to Schools Week about his hopes for the future of curriculum and assessment

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define...

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton
Behaviour

Schools white paper will ‘focus on setting expectations on behaviour’

Education secretary is concerned about children vulnerable to 'darker forces' online when they disengage from school

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Ruth Lucas
Pensions

Ministers plan academy support staff pensions reform

The plans would simplify the process to transfer staff to the same fund, rather than having them spread out...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

Outdated Ofsted rule ‘inadequate’ for looked-after children

'Crucial' government guidance still refers to headline grades, despite them being scrapped over a year ago

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
AI

‘Deepfake’ teacher avatar plan to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to create videos that look and sound just like them to introduce...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Conservatives propose exclusion ‘presumption’ for violent pupils

Shadow education secretary also says her party would make alternative provision 'independent' of councils and stop unregistered settings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker