Opinion

Covid has reduced our face-to-face contact with colleagues. So how do we sustain school improvement in an era of remote leadership?, asks Tom Stevens Can you hear that awkward silence? It’s the echo of countless unanswered emails in the inboxes of teachers everywhere. Covid has collapsed the ordinary staff meeting, and workload enemy number one […]

Accusations of anti-patriotism and threats of legal action have worrying implications for teachers of history, writes Jonathan Mountstevens When is it wrong to carry out historical research? According to the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, it is when it reveals material that questions the heroic status of “Britain’s greatest sons”, such as Winston Churchill. […]

The best place to start the green revolution is in our schools, say Mathilde Iveson and Amelie Nichols We’ve been honoured to be called Yorkshire’s answer to Greta Thunberg in coverage of our eco team’s work. But it’s too easy to say environmentalism is a young people’s issue, and then let us solve all the […]

The Institute of Race Relations’ recent paper shows why we can’t let up on the fight against racism in education, writes Dr Heather McClue The summer’s Black Lives Matter protests in the wake the death of George Floyd in United States’ police custody created a unique moment in my 30 years’ experience, when calls to […]

What do we know about the impact of skills-focused interventions and what does it mean for teachers? Will Millard and Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel review the evidence What is it that young people really need to learn in order to thrive throughout school and later life? This question has always been hotly contested, and rightly so: […]

There is no better time to put forward a positive vision of the future of schools than amid this crisis, writes Nick Brook Since the NAHT’s new commission first met to discuss the question “how can we better support schools to improve?”, the world of education has changed in ways we could scarcely have imagined. […]

Government must step in to support MAT trustees to validate executive pay or face trying to fix a distorted market later, writes Samantha Hulson The ability of schools to unshackle themselves from local authority control and become academies can feel invigorating but intoxicating. Alongside new freedoms to set their own curricula, academies and MATs have […]