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9 June 2026

Author: Schools Week Reporter

Blogs of the year 2017

This week, our guest reviewers look back on 2017 and share their top picks from the education blogging world.   Jill Berry’s top blogs   This year the decision was taken to close the free blogging platform @staffrm, and I want to pay tribute to Peps and Emma McCrea and those who made it possible, […]

Top 10 books of 2017 for teachers and school leaders

The best books 2017 had to offer, chosen by Schools Week features editor, Cath Murray.   For visionaries and dreamers   1. When the adults change, everything changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour By Paul Dix   Relationships matter. People matter. As educators, we are not dealing with faceless statistics, we are dealing with brilliant, […]

‘Strengthened’ QTS proposals due out today

A consultation on lengthening the time it takes teachers to fully qualify into the profession is set to launch today and will run over Christmas. Justine Greening told MPs on Monday that long-awaited proposals on teacher qualification and career-long training would be unveiled before the end of the week. The proposals are expected to include […]

Distance is an unfair criterion for school admission

While parents do engage in school choice, the system of using proximity to determine admission means that some households have negligible chance of admission to the best schools, explain Simon Burgess, Ellen Greaves and Anna Vignoles Parents in England have just made their secondary school choices, and we have carried out some research looking at the […]

SPONSORED: NCFE develops 2020 vision for technical education in schools

At NCFE, we understand that every pupil, just like every school, is different and that the traditional academic curriculum may not help everyone achieve their full potential. Our comprehensive schools offer includes our flagship V Cert qualifications for 14-16 year olds which are a technical alternative to GCSEs, holding DfE performance points and recognised in […]

School support staff have borne the brunt of funding cuts

Over a thousand parents, teachers, school support staff and head teachers attended the school cuts lobby of Parliament on Tuesday, to bring the message to MPs that 88% of our schools are seriously underfunded. The fantasy that emanates from the Government that there are huge efficiency savings still to be made, and that it is […]

Sam Twiselton, Director, Sheffield Institute of Education

Sam Twiselton narrates the Carter Review of initial teacher training as a satisfying morality tale of evidence over ideology. The director of the Sheffield Institute of Education played second fiddle to headteacher Sir Andrew Carter as a member of the government-commissioned review in 2014, “sticking to [him] like glue” for months, as the pair toured […]

SPONSORED: How to create a successful digital strategy for schools

There’s no doubt technology has the potential to revolutionise teaching and learning. We hear plenty of stories from teachers who have harnessed digital learning to deliver a more engaging experience. Whether it’s making great education more accessible to everyone with online programmes, or bringing multimedia content into the classroom to spark discussion and creativity, we […]

School performance data: winners and losers

The Department for Education this week published school-level data on GCSE and A-level results, including Progress 8 and Attainment 8 scores. Here, Schools Week looks at the winners and losers from this week’s data dump. A zero-sum game Because of the nature of Progress 8, the national score is designed to be zero. But schools […]