What new data tells us about hours spent at school Our new report delves for the first time on the length of the school week in schools across the country and its relationship with attainment
Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it
Unfinished business: Tim Brighouse, the curriculum review and me Sir Tim Brighouse’s long-time friend and colleague Mick Waters reflects on what the educational giant would have said to Becky Francis’s ‘mammoth task’
Oracy must become as essential as literacy or numeracy The oracy commission’s final report calls for oracy to become the ‘fourth R’ of modern education’s emancipatory missions
Three reasons this week’s STRB letter is game-changing for women Long-running campaigns have been ackowledged and action will surely follow on fair pay and conditions
What’s next for ‘evidence-informed’ education? ‘Evidence-informed’ has become an easy and often empty marketing tag for CPD providers. Here’s how we guard against its devaluation
Recruitment: Teaching’s narrative universe needs a reboot Teaching has an image problem and fixing it must be a top priority for the government and the sector alike
Government must square up to unscrupulous teaching agencies Fixing recruitment will require government to face down some unprincipled players and support some dedicated staff on the margins
Finding the missing piece of the school improvement puzzle A new research commission aims to unearth rapidly scalable insights about student engagement data – and you can be part of it