Schools

Investigation: teacher deregulation, by the back door

How teaching's graduate status is being eroded

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Politics

Munira Wilson, Lib Dem education spokesperson

Munira Wilson, the MP for Twickenham and since 2021 the Lib Dems’ spokesperson for education, proudly describes the party...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
MATs

Wesley Davies, CEO, The Two Counties Trust

Most MAT chiefs are lucky if they get to open one free school in their lifetime. Wesley Davies has...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
SEND

Ellie Costello, director, Square Peg

Ellie Costello is at the front of a growing movement against the “one-size-fits-all” education system that creates, she says,...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Attendance

‘The new epidemic’: Why more pupils are missing school

Absenteeism has become endemic in our schools. The search for solutions is keeping headteachers awake at night but, despite...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Christine Stansfield, chief executive, Mowbray Education Trust

Christine Stansfield tells me she was on the verge of pulling out of this interview because she feared she...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
pupil referral unit

Inside a north London PRU

Thirteen-year-old Maria* used to turn up at her pupil referral unit in the mornings already drunk on vodka. She...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Inside today’s bananas world of sex ed, with Matilda Lawrence-Jubb

In the new world of Andrew Tate, hardcore pornography and rape culture, sex education is very different to the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

CEO’s mission to make AI a force for good in classrooms

Priya Lakhani is at pains to express how many of the achievements in her colourful career were driven by...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill