Opinion

Many Chinese pupils are set to go home to mainland China or Hong Kong for February half-term. Vicky Wilson sets out what all independent schools should be doing to prepare Pupils from China and Hong Kong make up the biggest single group of overseas students in the UK’s independent schools but the Foreign Office has […]

This year’s Headteachers’ Roundtable summit will question Ofsted’s legitimacy and efficacy. Stephen Tierney explains why we need to #PauseOfsted, and how to make it happen Some seventy per cent of inspectors are current practitioners. So what if we all said no? What if we chose to answer the call to beneficence differently? What would the […]

So much has been written and said about knife crime in recent months, yet so little of it has been from young people themselves, says Lisa Capper At Nacro we are increasingly concerned that young people – particularly those most at risk – have so little voice in the debate. That’s why we spoke to […]

Looking ahead to compulsory relationships and sex education from September, fertility pioneer Professor Simon Fishel says improved fertility education would allow young people to plan for their futures Relationships and sex education (RSE) is finally having its moment. Overall teenage pregnancy rates are at their lowest since records began, comedy-drama Sex Education is trending on Netflix, […]

England’s schools make more use of within-school “ability” grouping than those in other similar countries, yet there is no evidence that this practice results in better outcomes overall for students. In fact, the Education Endowment Foundation toolkit reviews the best evidence available from experimental studies and concludes that there is a small negative impact of […]

As evidence grows that the role is at risk of becoming untenable, Emma Knights warns that we can’t afford to take our chairs of trustees for granted Today, the National Governance Association reports on interviews with 18 MAT chairs and sounds a warning about the sustainability of the role. This new publication follows our 2019 […]

Unless we come to terms with these five questions, we’ll never put the academic selection genie back in its lamp, writes Nick Hillman If I were to be granted three wishes by a genie, one of them would be that I never have to speak about grammar schools ever again. Whenever we at the Higher […]

The National Foundation for Education Research and Teacher Development Trust have partnered up to research CPD’s impact on teacher retention and develop resources to help break the ‘autonomy ceiling’ Much has been written on the pressing teacher supply challenge facing the school system. Rising pupil numbers, combined with too few teachers entering the profession, makes […]