Levelling up

Elite sixth forms? Let’s focus on the really big problems

Let’s start ‘levelling up’ by properly funding existing sixth forms, writes James Handscombe, then we can worry about other...

JL Dutaut
JAMES HANDSCOMBE
Levelling up

Primary targets make levelling up mission: improbable

Dizzyingly ambitious targets backed only by business-as-usual solutions show up the ‘levelling up’ proposals as hollow and evasive, writes...

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JO HUTCHINSON
The Knowledge

How is the cost of living crisis affecting teachers and schools?

Iain Ford sets out what we know about the state of teachers' finances - and what the rising cost...

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Iain Ford
Policy

What can we learn from former education secretaries?

After interviewing nine former holders of education's top job, Ed Dorrell warns the sector to be careful what they...

JL Dutaut
ED DORRELL
Opinion

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

The government's new policies will allow every child to benefit from education, no matter where they live, says Robin...

Freddie Whittaker
Robin Walker
Edtech

How an edtech audit transformed our provision

Free, genuine peer-to-peer advice that takes us as it finds us and leads to truly impactful change? Yes, please,...

JL Dutaut
MICHELLE SHAW
Academies

It’s not for us to question Catholic school academy conversions 

Calls on the Catholic Education Service to ‘step in’ on controversial academy conversions show a secular misunderstanding of our...

JL Dutaut
PAUL BARBER
Covid

My Covid lesson? Get back to the shop floor!

Offering to do supply across my trust to fill the gaps left by Omicron has opened my eyes to...

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LEE MASON-ELLIS
Sexual abuse

A whole-system response to harmful sexual behaviours

Teachers are vital in our fight against an epidemic of harmful sexual behaviour, writes the safeguarding minister, and they...

JL Dutaut
RACHEL MACLEAN, MP