Exams

Exams: Stick or twist, we need quick decisions from the new DfE 

It is right to return to pre-Covid grade boundaries as soon as possible, writes Geraint Jones, but we now...

JL Dutaut
Professor Geraint Jones
Childcare

PM Truss could spell revolution for school-based childcare

If it’s a priority for the new PM and the opposition, it’s likely schools will have to wrap their...

JL Dutaut
Ed Reza Schwitzer
National Curriculum

Why we’re abandoning Oak – and the new DfE should too

What started as a charitable and collaborative venture has become a vehicle for creating a government-approved curriculum, writes Jon...

JL Dutaut
Sir Jon Coles
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Young people's access to nature, teaching big ideas in primary, the impact of noise, changing behaviours, and girls in...

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JL Dutaut

The Review: How Teaching Happens by Paul Kirschner and others

Robbie Burns is taken with a writing style and design that make complex ideas accessible - but it's missing...

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The Conversation – This week in the digital staffroom

JL Dutaut takes a look at what's kept teachers talking this week on Twitter, including a new secretary of...

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Politics

Who’d be an education special adviser now?

Crisis, time pressures and political self-harm could leave the new DfE team lacking the expertise it needs to deliver,...

JL Dutaut
Angus Walker
Assessment

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t...

JL Dutaut
Jo Saxton
Social mobility

Social mobility: Pursuit of privilege hampers our progress

There are more important divisions to heal in and through state education than the top tier’s upward mobility into...

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion