Childcare

PM Truss could spell revolution for school-based childcare

If it’s a priority for the new PM and the opposition, it’s likely schools will have to wrap their...

JL Dutaut
Ed Reza Schwitzer
National Curriculum

Why we’re abandoning Oak – and the new DfE should too

What started as a charitable and collaborative venture has become a vehicle for creating a government-approved curriculum, writes Jon...

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Sir Jon Coles
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Young people's access to nature, teaching big ideas in primary, the impact of noise, changing behaviours, and girls in...

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Politics

Who’d be an education special adviser now?

Crisis, time pressures and political self-harm could leave the new DfE team lacking the expertise it needs to deliver,...

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Angus Walker
Assessment

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t...

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Jo Saxton
Social mobility

Social mobility: Pursuit of privilege hampers our progress

There are more important divisions to heal in and through state education than the top tier’s upward mobility into...

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Mike Ion
Exams, The Knowledge

GCSE results: A national shame that requires radical change

Our new research shows the unfolding tragedy of educational disadvantage, writes Lee Elliot Major, and it’s a scandal that...

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Lee Elliot Major
Exams

English and maths resits are crucial – but fewer should need them

A low pass rate for English and maths GCSEs – especially among disadvantaged pupils – is not an argument...

JL Dutaut
Steve Haines
Attainment gap

Schools can close gaps – but they can’t fix inequality

It’s time to stop asking what schools can do for society and start asking what society can do for...

JL Dutaut
Russell Hobby