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Headteachers’ Roundtable Doorstop Manifesto – General Election 2017

What every child requires is a great teacher. Download the Headteachers’ Roundtable Doorstop Manifesto Our challenge was to provide a straightforward, useful document for everyone to use, on the doorstep, to help to ask candidates and campaigners of all parties the important questions on two key issues: Ensuring our schools are properly funded; Ensuring the supply […]

Teach First Innovation Awards 2017

The Teach First innovation unit offers a year of support, including a salary, to out-of-the-box thinkers who get through to its final round for the annual Innovation Awards. Download the Teach First Innovation Award winners 2017 Set up in 2012, a decade after founder Brett Wigdortz set up the Teach First teacher training programme, the […]

No decline in teacher’s average A-levels, despite squeezed pay

New teachers have the same level of education as five years ago, despite recent squeezes on pay making the profession less attractive to new graduates. A new study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that the average A-level results for teachers who left university in 2015 was equivalent to three Bs and A-level, and one […]

Most-read opinion pieces of 2016

Here’s a countdown of the most popular opinion pieces from 2016, as voted by you, the reader. (Minus the top 10 “explainers” which you can read separately.) 10. D&T departments must adapt or end up on the scrap heap Design and technology is at a crossroads, announced Steven Parkinson in July, and school departments need to adapt or […]

Top 10 Schools Week expert explainers of 2016

At Schools Week we like to tackle complicated topics by getting people who really understand them to explain them to the rest of us. It seems our readers enjoy this, too, as many of our most popular expert columns this year followed the “explainer” format. In case you missed them, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular […]

Best books of 2016 for teachers and school leaders

The best books 2016 had to offer, chosen by Schools Week features editor, Cath Murray. 1. Don’t Send Him in Tomorrow by Jarlath O’Brien The beautifully written Don’t Send Him in Tomorrow rails against the “cloak of invisibility” over people with learning disabilities and suggests that every mainstream teacher should spend time in […]

Blogs of the year 2016

This week, our guest reviewers look back on 2016 and share their top picks from the education blogging world. Harry Fletcher-Wood’s top blogs This year the Learning Scientists take the top slot. Drs Smith, Weinstein, Wooldridge and Kuepper-Tetzel founded the blog, which goes a long way to respond to two perennial challenges: “How […]

Sarah Wild, headteacher, Limpsfield Grange School

Sarah Wild does not want to be known as the crazy lady with the goats. So let me put the record straight: Sarah Wild, headteacher of Limpsfield Grange secondary school in Surrey for autistic girls (of ITV documentary and book-writing fame), does not particularly like goats. In fact, the only reason the school has animals […]

Daventry becomes sixth UTC to announce closure after recruitment problems

Low student numbers will lead to closure of another University Technical College, the sixth to close or announce closure since the project launched five years ago. The trustees of Daventry UTC, a new technologies specialist institution in Northamptonshire, announced yesterday that it would close next August. According to government documents, the government spent more than […]