Opinion

A sudden desire to trust teachers hints at a poisoned chalice

After months of dithering and conflicting messages, the government’s latest noises on trust in teacher grading look likely to...

JL Dutaut
DAME ALISON PEACOCK
Opinion

Will the current lockdown ease financial pressures on schools? 

A new report by the NFER shows that regardless of lockdown all schools are struggling with Covid-related schools and...

JL Dutaut
JENNA JULIUS
Opinion

Migrant children need targeted support through lockdown

These are the strategies we need in order to address the particular problems faced by migrant children during the...

JL Dutaut
Dr Shoba Arun and Aleksandra Szymczyk
The lockdown diary

New year’s revolutions

Dan Morrow opens his lockdown diary to document another topsy-turvy week in education leadership

JL Dutaut
DAN MORROW
Opinion

Our media are making the hardest of situations harder

The venom habitually directed at the teaching profession by the media commentariat has plumbed new lows during the lockdowns,...

JL Dutaut
SARAH GALLAGHER
Opinion

What are schools’ emerging priorities in this new lockdown?

Lockdown 2.0 is having a much greater effect on primaries while inequalities continue to manifest, writes Laura McInerney This...

JL Dutaut
LAURA MCINERNEY
Opinion

School improvement doesn’t come in a flat-pack

We’ll only get sustained school improvement when we start to treat teachers and school leaders as masters of their...

JL Dutaut
CHRIS KIRKHAM-KNOWLES
The lockdown diary

The 2020 ‘holidays’

The lockdown diary is back and this term’s first instalment catalogues the cluster-farce that led to its announcement

JL Dutaut
JONATHAN MOUNTSTEVENS
Opinion

Repeated omission of special schools points to an ableist department

Special schools could be forgiven for thinking the department is ableist given that they are routinely treated as less...

JL Dutaut
DR LAURAN DOAK