Opinion

Here’s how exclusions accountability could work …

The Timpson review is an attempt to address a small but significant issue; the pretence of school improvement through...

John Dickens
STEPHEN TIERNEY
Opinion

Turnaround school leaders must be able to exclude to keep pupils safe

There is much to admire about Edward Timpson’s review of school exclusions, starting with his clear statement that schools...

John Dickens
LEORA CRUDDAS
Opinion

How partnership working will work…and why it could fail

In the nine years Nick Gibb has been minister for schools (under one guise or another), we’ve seen a...

Catherine Murray
CATH MURRAY
Opinion

How to make collaborative learning worthwhile

Everything that teachers do has a cost, a benefit, and (ideally) a valuable balance between the two. Often that...

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C.J. RAUNCH
Opinion

There are no easy answers to school refusal

School refusal may be a little more understood that when it was identified in the 1930s, but we still...

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FRAN MORGAN
Opinion

Top tips for managing transport in schools

Transport safety in schools is about a lot more than an annual service of the school minibus, says Surekha...

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SUREKHA GOLLAPUDI
Opinion

Ofsted’s evidence is so unfounded that their case for retaining grades collapses

Ofsted’s defence of its four-point grading scheme in its recent paper (Retaining the current grading system in education, April...

John Dickens
FRANK COFFIELD
Opinion

Which types of school are more likely to off-roll students?

It seems impossible that nearly 50,000 pupils disappeared from schools last year for no apparent reason. But this is...

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SHONA GALT
Opinion

Who needs coding when it’s pupil safety that matters?

Schools would be better using their limited edtech resources to help pupils to stay safe and develop as informed...

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LAURA LARKE