Features

Profile: Patrick Roach, general secretary, NASUWT

In conversation with the new NASUWT general secretary, Freddie Whittaker finds a leader determined to put members first It’s...

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut

Robin Conway’s top edu blogs of the week, 20 April 2020

Awarding grades, Oak National Academy, recruitment and an educational revolution in the offing are this week’s top picks of...

Find out more

Forget School: Why young people are succeeding on their own terms and what schools can do to avoid being left behind

Daniel Whittall finds a book that identifies many real problems but falls short of identifying real solutions This could...

Find out more
The Knowledge

Research: Why do students value science but not want to be scientists?

With recruitment shortages and issues of representation still dogging the STEM professions, Louise Archer looks at the interventions most...

JL Dutaut
LOUISE ARCHER
The lockdown diary

A week in the life of Jonny Uttley

In the first of our new series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of...

JL Dutaut
JONNY UTTLEY
Opinion

We should be angry for our communities, not at them

More schools are being asked to be emergency responders in the Covid-19 crisis, but that’s been the norm at...

JL Dutaut
GERRY ROBINSON
Opinion

The revolution will not be memorised

Tom Bennett is underwhelmed by a hotch-potch of futurist platitudes in the first episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning...

JL Dutaut
TOM BENNETT
Opinion

After COVID-19, we must finally remember the forgotten third

The pandemic has forced us to reinvent how we award grades but far more fundamental questions about our exam...

JL Dutaut
ROY BLATCHFORD
Opinion

More action is required quickly for thousands of ‘invisible’ children

Schools are doing an amazing job for the nation’s vulnerable children but many are invisible and government needs to...

JL Dutaut
LAYLA MORAN, MP