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Multi-academy trusts: can any benefits be proven?

Karen Wespieser investigates the extent to which the most successful MATs are improving outcomes for children and closing gaps...

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Let’s put teacher CPD at the heart of school improvement

In an increasingly fragmented system, here’s how one part of the country has taken a joint approach to school...

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Schools need more money or they’ll have to start cutting staff

Schools are increasingly forced to live beyond the meagre means the government gives them, a situation that can’t last...

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The public services Jenga tower is on the brink of collapse

Are schools going to get more money? That’s the question headteachers keep asking – not least at the ASCL...

Laura McInerney
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How to master KS2 maths SATs revision

Having analysed two years of maths SATs papers, Candida Crawford shares her top tips for how to organise your revision...

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The Hoodinerney model or ‘How to fix the school system’

Five years ago Laura McInerney and Matt Hood developed a model for how the schools system might work more...

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Pupil referral units are amazing places to work

Exclusions are in the national eye at the moment, but the narrative around pupil referral units is all too...

Kiran Gill
Kiran Gill
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Permanent exclusion is the punishment of last resort, but it’s sometimes necessary

Even with an inclusive approach and a clear behaviour policy, permanent exclusion is sometimes necessary to protect staff or...

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Are zero tolerance behaviour policies legal?

With the parliamentary education committee considering exclusions at present, barrister Russell Holland explains schools’ legal liabilities The education select...

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