Opinion

What academy finances can tell us about the future of the sector

Despite a slow-down in academy sector growth overall, some have clearly out-performed others. Who? How? And what can we...

JL Dutaut
PAM TUCKETT
Opinion

Can schools make staff vaccination mandatory?

There are good arguments for expecting school staff to get their vaccination against Covid but any policy must consider...

JL Dutaut
PAMAN SINGH
Opinion

Pandemic teacher training is a privilege, not a hardship

The most valuable lesson of teacher training during Covid has been the importance of practising what you teach, writes...

JL Dutaut
AMBER SMITH
Opinion

An inspector (video) calls. Our experience of Ofsted remote visits

The regulator has a difficult balance to strike between accountability and distraction but our Ofsted inspection team got the...

JL Dutaut
CARLY WATERMAN
Opinion

How can we help students transfer learning to new contexts?

Getting students to apply knowledge and skills in new contexts isn’t easy but some approaches are more likely to...

JL Dutaut
HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD
Opinion

Language teaching will suffer the loss of Erasmus

The programme’s impact on language teaching has been phenomenal and the new Turing scheme will have big shoes to...

JL Dutaut
PAUL HARRISON
The lockdown diary

Testing times

Emma Marshall opens her lockdown diary to reveal hope for young people's futures amid testing times for schools

JL Dutaut
EMMA MARSHALL
Covid

Plotting a ten-year course is the sensible response to Covid

A ten-year education plan like Blackpool’s is precisely the kind of policymaking our communities need and deserve, writes Frank...

JL Dutaut
FRANK NORRIS
Opinion

We must secure education technology’s great leap forward

Education technology has taken great strides in the past year. Now the legacy of its impact must be secured...

JL Dutaut
GAVIN WILLIAMSON