Opinion

GCSE reforms: So… um… how exactly have they helped low-attaining pupils?

It’s nice to see Nick Gibb explaining how harder GCSEs are going to lift all standards. It must be...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Which accountability measures should schools prioritise?

With the DfE and Ofsted making clashing requirements, Liam Collins is forced to wonder which accountability measures and diktats schools...

Liam Collins
Liam Collins
Opinion

A-levels 2017: School leaders, are your results normal?

A-level results are out, and Ofqual has released its usual series of graphs showing the dips and rises in...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

A-level results 2017: How Schools Week will report the day and what to look out for

Editor Laura McInerney explains how we are going to report Thursday’s A-level results For the past two A-level results...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Ignore the rise in school-led teacher training routes – universities are here to stay

The Department for Education’s recent Teacher Training Performance Profiles for 2015/16 prompted inevitable cries in the media of “the...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

Can a school decide to leave an academy trust?

As one regional schools commissioner ponders whether a school can voluntarily quit its multi-academy trust, education consultant Simon Foulkes...

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
Opinion

Amanda Spielman is right: our schools are too risk averse

Risk-aversion in schools has gone too far, argues Andy Phippen. We need to empower our pupils to manage and...

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn
Opinion

We know how to close the attainment gap – but government and schools must commit to it

The answer to closing the attainment gap begins at home, and in helping poverty-stricken parents as much as their...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

50 years before we have an equitable school system

We’re making slow progress in closing the attainment gap, claims the Education Policy Institute’s Jo Hutchinson, because the picture...

Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn