Opinion

Why grammars are a five-sided dice trick

A jumbo five-sided dice is due to land at the Schools Week towers this week. It is smooth, blue,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

The utopian origins of comprehensive schools

The first in a weekly series of columns looking into the archives of education and using the past to...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Teacher transfer window: Why can’t we fill our vacancies 365-days-a-year?

The idiosyncratic “teacher transfer windows” model is failing schools and teachers. Notice periods for teachers should come into line...

Expert Contributor
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10 ways to make workload less of a challenge

Russell Hobby and Professor Toby Salt explore what more the government can do about teacher workload and what practical...

Russell Hobby
Russell Hobby
Opinion

Small schools should keep meals subsidy until national funding formula comes in

After a leaked report revealed the DfE knew small schools needed extra funds to provide free meals – yet...

Expert Contributor
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There’s more to worry about than grammars

Spending the summer worrying about the return of grammar schools is like worrying the NHS is about to reintroduce...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Theresa May should take a look in the mirror on grammar schools

Theresa May’s policy to expand academic selection by allowing grammar schools to expand and other schools to select some...

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Our LA is quite ‘hands-off’ anyway, so what freedoms would academy conversion bring?

We don’t currently understand the freedoms that converting might give us – what additional freedoms are there? We’re pretty...

Christine Bayliss
Christine Bayliss
Opinion

Can church schools become stand-alone academies?

Question: Is the memorandum of understanding between the Department for Education and the Church of England/Catholic Church a legally binding...

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