Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

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Rebecca Maw
The Legal Leader

The accountability implications of ‘the Hillsborough Law’

New legislation making its way through parliament will place new ethical responsibilities on schools and trusts

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Esther Maxwell and Kamal Chauhan
The Research Leader

Our national wellbeing problems require local solutions

The 3,000 young voices represented in our new report add surprising local context to national concerns about youth mental...

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Vivienne Avery
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their...

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Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which...

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Poppy Nobes
Opinion: Assessment

GCSE resits don’t deliver social justice – but alternatives can

The GCSE resit policy limits our ability to recognise what learners can do. We know what would work better,...

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Robin Bevan
Opinion: Accountability

How to make the most of Ofsted’s new nominee role

Schools can’t afford to allow this new feature of Ofsted’s framework to go unnoticed. It can transform the inspection...

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Kerry Boffey
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Why we're getting parents dreadfully wrong, why RISE needs to raise its game, and why Ofsted can only take...

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Various
Opinion: Leadership

Let’s make Black school leadership the expectation – not the exception

This Black History Month, let's celebrate those who have broken through and join them in lifting others up

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Patrick Cozier