Opinion: Workforce

The Knowledge. What works to improve recruitment and retention?

Becky Francis sets out key findings from today's new EEF review of international evidence on successful measures to recruit...

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Becky Francis
Opinion: Workforce

If we solve the retention crisis, the recruitment crisis will follow

Staff attrition is a marker of the health of our education system and our diagnosis calls for immediate intervention,...

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Sinéad McBrearty
Opinion

Solutions: How to prepare for the next disruptive social media trend

The recent wave of so-called Tik-Tok protests affecting schools achieved a lot of coverage in the media and caused...

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Theresa Kerr and Richard Wright-PhillipsSolicitor, Education support team, Winckworth Sherwood
Opinion: Accountability

What East of England school leaders are saying about Ofsted

The Suffolk Primary Heads' Association's research reveals some pretty damning feedback about Ofsted's framework and inspections, says Rebecca Leek

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Rebecca Leek

Pretended. Schools and section 28 by Catherine Lee

Pretended takes readers on an emotionally charged journey through the dark corridors of Margaret Thatcher’s infamous Section 28 legislation,...

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The Conversation – with Frances Akinde

A look back on mental health awareness week, from 'snowflake children' to a blizzard of need

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Opinion: Legal

How compensation claims work in this increasingly risky profession

Staffing shortages and straitened budgets are already leading to an increase in compensation claims, explains Ben Pepper

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Ben Pepper
Academies

Academisation should not be creating second-class families

The DfE’s culture of secrecy and expediency over forced academisation needs to change, writes Mark Boylan, and there is...

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Mark Boylan
Opinion: Workforce

Better than before doesn’t mean the ECF is good enough

The ECF may be built on sound pedagogical foundations but trainees need to enjoy and value the experience too,...

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Becky Allen