Opinion: Solutions

Six steps for delivering a mental health peer support programme

Getting students to support each other’s wellbeing can be highly effective, but getting it right requires time and effort

JL Dutaut
Monisha Jefcut
Opinion: SEND

Labour’s SEND reforms must put the onus back on the NHS

Conflation of ‘SEN’ and ‘SEND’ in the last set of reforms has contributed to shifting nursing responsibilities onto schools

JL Dutaut
Emma Smith
Opinion: SEND

The select committee’s SEND report lacks practical answers

The 95 recommendations in 'Solving the SEND crisis' are expensive, time-consuming and won’t put us on a path to...

JL Dutaut
Louise Lee
Opinion: Policy

Labour must not let parental expectations lower standards

Ministers must reinforce high expectations when they set out their home-school contract - or risk making an already tough...

JL Dutaut
Sufian Sadiq
Stat of the nation

What’s really behind white low-income pupils’ underperformance?

A deep dive into new data reveals attention to this cohort is not just political grandstanding

JL Dutaut
John Jerrim
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity from Ofsted.

JL Dutaut
Various
Opinion: Policy

It’s time to champion school support staff and boost their rights

Their pay and conditions are a priority for me as education secretary and will remain so if I become...

Freddie Whittaker
Bridget Phillipson
Opinion: Curriculum

Here’s what every ‘phonics for maths’ programme should deliver

Our new benchmarks aim to take the debate out of what the phrase means and set us on the...

JL Dutaut
Louise Pennington
Opinion: CPD

Didagogy: Teacher training’s missing component

Despite recent progress, we’re still getting teacher and leader development wrong too often. This new concept hopes to put...

JL Dutaut
Professor Sam Twiselton