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Learning from other countries on how to teach resilience

The government’s Resilience Action Plan focuses on educating adults – leaving children unprepared for the next global emergency. Here’s…

John Dickens

Lydia Preston

The Legal Leader

Use common sense to deal with an angry AI-created legal request

Subject access requests have become common but new legislation provides guidance on how to react sensibly, says Claire Archibald

Freddie Whittaker

Claire Archibald

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

How to really drive efficiencies in schools, and what next after Ofsted legal action failure

Freddie Whittaker

Various

Opinion

There’s a sweet spot to be found in setting inspection consistency

Achieving consistency is fraught with complexity, warns Steve Wren. Go too far and you can rinse insight from Ofsted…

Freddie Whittaker

Steve Wren

Opinion

Teachers must call pupils in, not out, on conspiracy theories

While teachers need training in how to react, they should meet conspiratorial claims with curiosity, not judgment, says Helena…

Freddie Whittaker

Helena Brothwell

Opinion

Banning phones in schools is a lazy opt-out

No one disagrees unfettered use of smartphones in schools is a bad thing, but indulging in a moral panic…

Freddie Whittaker

Hannah Carter

Opinion

Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong

Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy

Freddie Whittaker

Seamus Murphy

Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens

Sir Hamid Patel

Parental leave

Some schools have cracked parental leave – so why can’t everyone?

Education leaders must take note of a parliamentary debate last week on maternity and paternity pay, says Emma Sheppard

John Dickens

Emma Sheppard

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Opinion: Solutions

Learning from other countries on how to teach resilience

The government’s Resilience Action Plan focuses on educating adults – leaving children unprepared for the next global emergency. Here’s…

John Dickens

Lydia Preston

The Legal Leader

Use common sense to deal with an angry AI-created legal request

Subject access requests have become common but new legislation provides guidance on how to react sensibly, says Claire Archibald

Freddie Whittaker

Claire Archibald

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

How to really drive efficiencies in schools, and what next after Ofsted legal action failure

Freddie Whittaker

Various

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

JL Dutaut

Melanie Renowden

ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

JL Dutaut

David Spendlove

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens

3mo

Sam Sykes

3mo

Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,…

JL Dutaut

James Handscombe

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