Year in review

Creativity saw us through a year of plentiful challenges

A week from retirement, Madelaine Caplin looks back on a tumultuous, frustrating but also joyous final year of her...

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Madelaine Caplin
Year in review

What we need now is consolidation, not upheaval

We can be grateful 2022 ends with more stability and fewer financial pressures, writes Katharine Birbalsingh. Now let’s focus...

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Katharine Birbalsingh
Year in review

As ministers hokey cokeyed, schools took the lead again

A year characterised by an in, out, in out, shake it all about of people and policy ends with...

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Diana Ohene-Darko
Year in review

Governance has emerged transformed and stronger

Continuing crisis has proven the benefits of a re-imagined school governance emboldened in its priorities, writes Ruby Bhatti

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Ruby Bhatti
Opinion

This was the year teachers decided enough was enough

As 2022 comes to a close, the effects of turmoil and financial strain remain in spite of a late...

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Patrick Roach
The Knowledge

How is levelling up progressing in the north east?

The latest survey of schools in our region shows some progress in one respect but concerning trends in all...

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Chris Zarraga

The Review: Four Nations Four Schools on BBC Radio 4

Mike Taylor spends an insightful half hour listening to Laura McInerney's tour of the UK's school systems and volunteers...

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The Conversation – with Jess Mahdavi-Gladwell

Free school meals, Covid's impact on early development, why you shouldn't lose sleep over broken sleep and flexible working

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Opinion: Policy

A scaled-back Oak could have had the whole sector’s support

Judicial review is a measure of last resort but the government's actions have left us no choice to protect...

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn