The Knowledge

Research: What support might students need with ‘normal’ exams?

Students will need extra support to prepare for exams that may feel normal to us but are completely new...

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Tee McCaldin and Hannah Wilkinson
key stage 4

Are KS4 performance statistics still doing their job?

The office for statistics regulation is reviewing the use of KS4 performance stats and you can be part of...

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Emily Carless and Nicky Pearce
Design and technology

Low take-up of design and technology threatens the government’s ambitions

Government ambitions to stimulate technology, engineering and manufacturing could be threatened by dwindling take-up of relevant subjects, writes Sam...

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Sam Tuckett
Edtech

Let’s learn from Estonia and say goodbye to the old normal

Instead of romanticising our education system, we would better serve teachers and pupils by following the example of new...

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Emma Slater
Edtech

We can and must do better to scale up innovations

There is a thriving market of start-ups offering educational solutions, writes David Jaffa, but a fragmented system means schools...

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David Jaffa
Alternative provision

PRUs prevent criminality – so let’s look beyond the tropes

New research disproves the damaging tropes about alternative provision’s link to crime, writes Steve Howell, so let’s ditch them...

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STEVE HOWELL
Schools white paper

White paper: beware the unintended consequences

Policy makers looking to secure an all-academy system risk putting a jet engine on a bicycle – with predictable...

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Hugh Greenway
Schools white paper

White paper: the all-MAT system needs governance buy-in

Governors and trustees still have valid reservations about large MATs, writes Emma Knights, and the white paper must account...

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Emma Knights
The Knowledge

How can we improve attendance in the wake of Covid?

New EEF research offers some best bets for getting children back in the classroom and keeping them there after...

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Kirsten Mould