Opinion

Trainee teachers’ mental health should be ringing alarm bells

Beyond the rhetoric of greater mental health provision in schools for both pupils and staff, not enough has been...

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EMMA HOLLIS
Opinion

Are teachers leading double lives to make ends meet?

It’s a given that teachers are superheroes but we’re only beginning to unmask their secret identities, writes Laura McInerney...

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LAURA MCINERNEY
Opinion

Schools and MATs need to take urgent action on GDPR

Data safeguarding is as important as any other safeguarding and more work needs to be done to ensure schools...

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LYNNE TAYLOR

Jon Hutchinson’s top edu blogs of the week, 10 February 2020

Teaching writing, ranking schools, structuring curriculum and powerful knowledge for leaders are Jon Hutchinson’s top picks of the education...

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How to be an Outstanding Primary SENCO

Karen Ferguson discovers a book with plenty of practical advice for new SENCOs, and a healthy respect fo workload...

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Opinion

How UK independent schools should prepare for coronavirus disruption

Many Chinese pupils are set to go home to mainland China or Hong Kong for February half-term. Vicky Wilson...

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VICKY WILSON

James Murphy’s top edu blogs of the week, 3 February 2020

Phonics, paperless pedagogy, curriculum, mental health and fleeing China are among guest blog reviewer James Murphy’s top picks of...

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Opinion

Time to pause Ofsted – here’s how

This year’s Headteachers’ Roundtable summit will question Ofsted’s legitimacy and efficacy. Stephen Tierney explains why we need to #PauseOfsted,...

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STEPHEN TIERNEY
Opinion

Young people’s views are a vital to solving the knife crime crisis

So much has been written and said about knife crime in recent months, yet so little of it has...

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LISA CAPPER