Opinion: Attendance

How new attendance guidelines could affect anxious pupils

New guidelines that could come into force from September will mean schools need a new approach for anxious pupils,...

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Stephanie Smith
Admissions

It’s time to end the scandal of religious tests for church schools

If universities behaved like this they’d face potential closure, writes Nick Hillman, so why do we accept it from...

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Nick Hillman
Opinion: Accountability

Accountability must focus more on improving and less on approving

The thinking that brought about our current accountability system can’t get us out of the problems it has caused,...

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Les Walton
FSM

School food policy requires a shift from ministers and campaigners

Universal free school meals are a distraction from a simple change that would see food reach 200,000 pupils who...

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Andy Jolley
Professional development

The ECF’s problem isn’t workload. Workload is the ECF’s

New YouGov polling what teachers really mean when they say workload is an issue for the early career framework,...

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Marie Hamer
Artificial Intelligence

Keegan is right to back AI to reduce teacher workload

Ministerial announcements on reducing teacher workload are nothing new, writes Ed Reza Schwitzer, but Keegan’s bet that AI can...

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Ed Reza Schwitzer
Opinion: SEND

How to build an RSHE curriculum that works for SEND students

Nicole Rodden shares advice on developing crucial RSHE provision for pupils with SEND who are particularly vulnerable when navigating...

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Nicole Rodden
The Knowledge

What can the Covid exam crisis teach us about policy making?

New research lays bare how a host of problems with England's policy making led to avoidable mistakes and poor...

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Jo-Anne Baird and Margaret Arnott

Would you send your child here? What’s really going on in our schools…

Having dabbled in a few spells of supply teaching myself and having never read The Secret Supply Teacher’s column,...

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