The Life Project – book review

Cohort studies have taught us everything we know. Well, not quite, but working my way through Helen Pearson’s The...

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Politics

Academy conversion advice

Welcome to Schools Week’s agony aunt* column, for all your academisation woes. Whether you’ve already boarded the academisation train, are...

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Opinion

Why some children with language needs are being missed

What have you been working on? A study on language impairment at school entry age, and how we can...

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Schools Week Reporter
Opinion

Do “prison academies” make sense?

In light of Michael Gove’s plan for the prison sector to learn from schools, Peter Dawson of the Prison Reform trust explains...

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News

Speed read: Coates review of education in prison – the schools bits

Dame Sally Coates published her review of education in prisons today. Michael Gove, as justice secretary, commissioned the review...

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Opinion

Teaching Assistants: are they worth it?

In light of Durham County’s decision to cut teaching assistants’ pay, and the recent warning that teaching assistants risk being replaced...

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News

Speed read: mental health in schools – IPPR report

Ofsted should inspect schools’ mental health provision more frequently, says a report published today by a leading policy think...

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News

Government plans to change term-time holiday law

The government will look to change the law on term-time holidays, after the high court backed a father who...

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Schools Week Reporter
Politics

Sutton Trust expands Pathways to Law schools programme

GCSE pupils from deprived areas will receive workshops to introduce them to the legal profession, in a drive to...

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