Politics

Featured: Kathy takes top honours

Kathy Harwood won this year’s top prize for teaching assistants at the annual Pearson teaching awards. Kathy, a higher...

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Politics

Christine Bayliss, Roger Pope, Chris Jansen, Rees Withers

Christine Bayliss has been appointed chief executive of Prima Learning Trust, a new academy trust based in Bristol. A...

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Politics

Share those best moments at work

In appeal on social media is urging young teachers to “stay the course”. This month the Education Support Partnership...

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Opinion

‘It’s cushy to be a male primary school teacher’

A Y-chromosome makes male teachers instantly visible in a primary schools. It also benefits them enormously; they are over-represented...

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Opinion

You’re not the ‘mastery’ of me

The masculine narrative of current education reformers won’t lead to freedom. It is infiltrating teachers’ consciousness; changing perceptions of...

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Andrew Old picks his top blogs of the week 23 October 2015

Is there such a thing as a crap school? By @SurrealAnarchy Sometimes it is the most obviously true statements...

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Features

Doug Lemov, author and managing director of Uncommon Schools

Doug Lemov had a “pretty miserable” time in his early teens. “I was kind of the ugly duckling. To...

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News

Academy chain offers extra £5k to ‘core’ subject teachers

Core subject teachers are being offered a £5,000 cash incentive in a bid to lure them to work for...

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News

Life skills squeezed out of curriculum by academic subjects

The pressure on academic subjects is pushing life skills out of timetables – and organisations trying to support schools...

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