Naureen Khalid’s blogs of the week, 11 October 2021

The People Principle @SaysMiss In this blog, Kat Howard reflects on decision-making in people-orientated organisations. She argues that as...

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Remote learning

The triple jeopardy of deprivation for online learning

Pupils are back in the classroom but online learning is now part of the furniture, and that means barriers...

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REKA BUDAI
Opinion: Workforce

Retention: adult bullying must be confronted head on

Heads are completely alone in the face of intimidation from parents and their communities, writes Rachel Smith, and it’s...

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RACHEL SMITH
North-South divide, Pupil premium

Rishi Sunak must extend the pupil premium to level up our schools

Levelling up must mean tackling persistent inequalities in our school system, and the spending review offers an opportunity to...

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JOHN STEVENSON, MP
Child poverty

The Universal Credit cut is also a cut to education

The work of schools to close attainment gaps becomes all the harder with every child who falls into poverty,...

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DANIEL KEBEDE
The Knowledge

Is there a better, or best, classroom layout?

How best to set up a classroom seems too complex for research to solve, but Cat Scutt finds there...

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CAT SCUTT

Becoming a teacher

Amber Smith finds a potentially transformative book, but possibly not for the teacher audience its marketing suggests Becoming a...

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Melissa Jane’s blogs of the week, 4 October 2021

Melissa Jane picks three blogs that set out the challenge facing new minister in charge of SEND, Will Quince...

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Opinion

(Re-)Introducing the Teaching and Learning Toolkit

A decade of learning has led to a major update of the EEF toolkit, writes Jonathan Kay, and now...

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JONATHAN KAY