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When did ‘knowledge-rich’ and ‘enquiry-based’ learning become mutually exclusive?

‘Knowledge-rich’ and ‘enquiry-based’ learning are not mutually exclusive – the government is pursuing a high-risk strategy by allowing ideology to trump...

Aug. 1st, 2018

More exclusions are definitely NOT the answer

Jules Daulby hits back against the claim that the number of pupils being excluded from mainstream schools might be too low...

JULES DAULBY

Director of education, Driver Trust

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Tue 31 Jul 2018, 17.48
Beware the government’s sleight of hand on academy finances

The government’s new method for calculating school budgets obscures the true number of schools in financial deficit, explains Jon Andrews The Department...

JON ANDREWS

Director for school system and performance, Education Policy Institute

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Fri 27 Jul 2018, 10.00
Is this the real exclusions ‘scandal’ – leaving too many kids in mainstream?

How can the education committee claim the current level of school exclusions is too high, when no one even knows what...

JOHN BLAKE

Head of education at Policy Exchange

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Fri 27 Jul 2018, 12.00
Teacher pay scales are essential – here’s why

With the government having announced the teacher pay rises for 2018-19, Mary Bousted explains why she thinks centralised pay scales are...

MARY BOUSTED

Joint general secretary, National Education Union

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Thu 26 Jul 2018, 12.30
Scrap national pay scales and let schools decide

With school leaders and teachers frustrated about the government’s delay in announcing teacher pay rises, Mark Lehain makes the case for...

MARK LEHAIN

Former headteacher, Bedford Free School

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Thu 26 Jul 2018, 12.30
Teacher pay rise: how will different schools implement it?

The Department for Education has announced that it will help fund pay rises for teachers and school leaders next year. But...

MICON METCALFE

Academy trust chief operating officer, Fellow of the ISBL

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Wed 25 Jul 2018, 11.05
Let’s not turn RE into a weapon in the war against Catholic schools

Some campaigners have an ulterior motive in pushing for a national RE curriculum – they know it would cause Catholic schools to close,...

ANDY LEWIS

Head of RE, St Bonaventure’s Catholic School

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Wed 25 Jul 2018, 5.00
Memorable profile interviews of 2017-18 (Or, ‘Why would any school leader invite in a journalist?’)

Schools Week’s features editor Cath Murray looks back on some of the memorable profile interviews from this year Why would any...

CATH MURRAY

Features editor

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Tue 24 Jul 2018, 5.30
What I learned from the Shanghai maths teacher exchange

The UK can certainly learn from the Far East, says Caroline Hamilton, but cultural context is key, and what our teachers...

CAROLINE HAMILTON

Head of development, White Rose Maths

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Sun 22 Jul 2018, 5.00
Where did maths mastery come from?

The roots of some ‘Asian’ teaching approaches lie closer to home than you might think, observes Mark Boylan Read or hear...

MARK BOYLAN

Professor of education, Sheffield Hallam University

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Sat 21 Jul 2018, 5.00