JL Dutaut | Schools Week

Retiring makes me a rarity – and that shouldn’t be the case

Sarah Ledger reflects on how the job has changed over her long career, and why those following her out of the profession keep getting younger

Labour needs to look no further in its curriculum review – a solution already exists

Everything the government wants to achieve through the Francis review is already being delivered in many of our schools

Labour can’t be all talk and no action on oracy

Given that children in the lowest income group start school with language skills 19 months behind their wealthier peers on average, it’s unsurprising that the oracy commission is calling for oracy to be prioritised as the fourth ‘R’, alongside reading, writing and arithmetic.  But to make oracy education work at scale, the government must place […]

How Labour can deliver a truly inclusive education system

The new government has a golden opportunity to end the box-ticking approach to inclusion and bring about a system where every child can thrive. Here’s how

The curriculum review is wrong: Evolution is not enough

Reassurances of ‘evolution, not revolution’ ignore the inconvenient fact that the revolution is already happening – and we’re not keeping up

How we’ll meet Labour’s (very) ambitious work experience goal

New research shows the scale of the challenge involved in meeting the government’s aim of two weeks’ work experience for all

Unreformed, England’s SEN system is financially unsustainable

A new report from the National Audit Office lays bare the financial crisis related to SEND provision and makes some urgent recommendations for ministers

What’s really behind teacher shortages here and abroad?

A new report attempts to find the simplest explanation for why countries with teacher shortages have them while others don’t

I, teacher: The five stages to unleashing robot educators

The robot teachers are coming. Here’s how their evolution is likely to play out