Opinion

As the NGA launches its 2020 governance survey, chief executive, Emma Knights praises the transformation of boards’ practices and warns of more challenges ahead There has been a revolution in the way governing board meetings are held. As with much of governance, it has been going on under the radar, but it has been a […]

With university application season in disarray, UCAS coordinator, David Preece finds he is missing the joy of seeing those big decision moments in person Monday, May 4 It’s all happening so far away from normal. I miss it. It’s two weeks since our sixth form sent out a letter to students explaining what we knew […]

As the government announce a gradual re-opening of schools, Cat Scutt looks at the challenges teachers will be facing and what they will need to begin closing the widening disadvantage gaps The closure of schools to most pupils is a key part of the approach to tackling the Covid-19 pandemic and fully reopening them too […]

Primary-to-secondary transition faces new challenges as a result of the Covid crisis but recent research can help ensure schools make the best of it. Ellie Mulcahy explains Research suggests that most children anticipate transitions in positive terms and successfully navigate them. However, the primary to secondary school transition nonetheless presents a variety of challenges, many […]

As her schools prepare to launch Oak Academy resources amid new routines and new challenges, Jo Southby opens up her lockdown diary

Whatever is in store for education post lockdown, we can be sure that the foundational skills of mindfulness will continue to be as invaluable as ever, say the authors of a new strategy document The interruption of our normal life has made us all acutely aware of the significance of emotional and social needs. It […]

A new report on the state of alternative provision makes for some dire reading but there’s plenty of evidence it doesn’t have to be that way, writes Cath Murray When you want to sell a story about excluded children into the mainstream media, it has to be about how dire their outcomes, or awful the […]

A new report from the Chartered College of Teaching has gathered evidence from around the world and must inform any decision about how schools are reopened, writes Alison Peacock The widespread closures of schools to all but children of key workers and vulnerable children are unprecedented and the impact on our pupils, teachers and schools […]