Opinion

An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee

Congratulations! Not only did you win an election to Westminster, you’ve now got the cherry on the cake: a...

JL Dutaut
MARK LEHAIN
Opinion

Too little data on restraint puts children at risk

Growing concern about the use of restraint in schools has led the Equality and Human Rights Commission to launch...

JL Dutaut
LAURA LUCKING
Opinion

Trainee teachers’ mental health should be ringing alarm bells

Beyond the rhetoric of greater mental health provision in schools for both pupils and staff, not enough has been...

JL Dutaut
EMMA HOLLIS
Opinion

Are teachers leading double lives to make ends meet?

It’s a given that teachers are superheroes but we’re only beginning to unmask their secret identities, writes Laura McInerney...

JL Dutaut
LAURA MCINERNEY
Opinion

Schools and MATs need to take urgent action on GDPR

Data safeguarding is as important as any other safeguarding and more work needs to be done to ensure schools...

JL Dutaut
LYNNE TAYLOR
Opinion

How UK independent schools should prepare for coronavirus disruption

Many Chinese pupils are set to go home to mainland China or Hong Kong for February half-term. Vicky Wilson...

JL Dutaut
VICKY WILSON
Opinion

Time to pause Ofsted – here’s how

This year’s Headteachers’ Roundtable summit will question Ofsted’s legitimacy and efficacy. Stephen Tierney explains why we need to #PauseOfsted,...

JL Dutaut
STEPHEN TIERNEY
Opinion

Young people’s views are a vital to solving the knife crime crisis

So much has been written and said about knife crime in recent months, yet so little of it has...

JL Dutaut
LISA CAPPER
Opinion

Teaching contraception without teaching conception fails young people

Looking ahead to compulsory relationships and sex education from September, fertility pioneer Professor Simon Fishel says improved fertility education would...

JL Dutaut
PROFESSOR SIMON FISHEL