The Knowledge

NTP: What lessons can we learn from year one?

Lee Elliot Major responds to the NFER's new evaluation report of the first year of the NTP - the...

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Lee Elliot Major
Opinion: Workforce

We need to talk about workload (again)

Workload continues to cause a retention challenge, writes Reka Budai, but we're missing important detail to tackle it by...

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Reka Budai
Opinion

Pre-pandemic school standards won’t return as quickly as we’d like

Schools are weathering the storm better than some public services, but a lack of funding will slow recovery

Freddie Whittaker
Philip Nye
Behaviour

Assemblies: surfing the ripple to keep pupils focused

After wiping out on a wave of disruption of his own making, James Handscombe reflects on how to keep...

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James Handscombe
Inclusion

Time for change: let’s end discriminatory hair policies

As well as asking teachers to deliver lessons, school leaders can show their commitment to Black History Month by...

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Kate Williams
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s framework is failing first and infant schools

The only conclusion from the downgrading of so many infant and first schools is that Ofsted’s framework is unfit...

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David Scott
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Our scramble for youth is missing the talent

Changes in population and the labour market mean the government’s scramble for young recruits is no longer a workable...

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Katie Waldegrave
Oak National Academy

Independence is just the start of the new Oak’s problems

Plans to re-launch Oak National as an independent body are already running into legal challenges, and could be mired...

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Martyn Davis
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Our commissioning editor delves into an EEF report that has reignited the reading wars and left teachers none the...

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