Opinion

Schools don’t need to develop young people’s resilience alone

Investing in developing young people’s resilience is investing in their future and ours. Scouts has been working at it...

JL Dutaut
ANN LIMB
Opinion

Will general election promises solve the recruitment and retention crisis?

Figures published today show the Department for Education (DfE) has missed its secondary teacher training target for a seventh...

JL Dutaut
JACK WORTH
Opinion

Could fixing retention be easier than politicians make out?

The mistaken belief that money doesn’t matter to teachers has consequences. For too long, policymakers have relied on the...

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DR SAM SIMS
Opinion

Helping schools walk their talk on climate change

There is still a gap between talk and the education sector’s response to our changing climate, writes Felicity Liggins....

JL Dutaut
FELICITY LIGGINS
Opinion

School communities can take action now on climate change

Until such time as politicians put the environment at the heart of policy, school climate strikes will continue to...

JL Dutaut
FIONA CARNIE
Opinion

What schools can learn from Game of Thrones on mottos

I’m fairly sure my school had a motto, but I can’t remember what it was. What I can remember...

John Dickens
BAZ RAMAIAH
Opinion

Progress 8 fails pupils with special needs

Thousands of pupils with complex needs are guaranteed a negative P8 score and are at increased risk of exclusion...

John Dickens
STEVE PRESTON
Opinion

Is it ever OK to remove a child from your roll?

Ofsted has been downgrading schools that “off-roll” students. But what does it actually mean? Cath Murray explains… The whole...

John Dickens
CATH MURRAY
Opinion

Funding formula threatens small schools with extinction

As an election looms, funding promises abound, but Thomas Moore is pretty sure that small schools will continue to...

JL Dutaut
THOMAS MOORE