Opinion

New UCAS figures show that a culture of positive mental health disclosure is growing among university applicants – and room for improvement, writes Nicola Turner Over the past decade, there has been a 450 per cent increase in the number of people sharing a mental health condition in their UCAS application. It’s a positive sign […]

As a school leader, I’ve never been more convinced of the importance of the early years, writes Ed Vainker. And now the sector has two powerful allies Despite education having spent weeks on the front pages since March 2020, we have heard far too little about Early Years (EY), given its importance and the impact […]

Jewish teachers just want to be represented and supported in the face of antisemitism, writes Madeleine Fresko-Brown, so why are the NEU finding that so difficult? The actions of some NEU leaders over the past few weeks have reignited questions about its ability to represent its Jewish members. The 1996 Education Act mandates that schools […]

This week’s research looks at one man’s efforts to uncover the processes of learning and memory from the hidden aspects of the student experience If we are truly to meet students’ needs, then we must never lose sight of what they think, know and believe. One researcher understood this profoundly, and his work offers us […]

There are encouraging signs that school improvement is being put on a more sustainable footing, writes David Weston. And not a minute too soon Exhausted by Covid. Worn down by waves of change. Teachers and school leaders have never been asked to give so much nor to be more resilient. But, just in time, policy […]

Looking past our disappointment at the Treasury’s funding of the recovery package, it’s easy to see why the DfE failed to secure more money for interventions, writes Ian Rowe The £1.4 billion offered by the government to help children catch up on their education after the pandemic was largely condemned as insufficient. The former recovery tsar, Sir Kevan […]

Dismissing the educational potential of AI is wasted energy. Worse, it could leave the sector exposed, writes Priya Lakhani There’s an idea in psychology called the ‘thought-terminating cliché’. Popularised by psychiatrists analysing the effects of political propaganda, the term describes the deliberate use of loaded, emotive language to quell critical thinking. Trite sayings or proverbs […]