Opinion

How a charity can be effective

Philanthropists like giving to schools, says Angela Kail. But if the school system in England was ever straightforward for...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

A jobs board distracts from the teacher shortage

Patrick Hayes is stumped by the government’s “slightly odd u-turn” on a national teaching website. It’s been tried before...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Why we’re all on board in the north east

Heads in the north east say that teacher recruitment is one of their greatest problems. So its regional network...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Character education: teaching through subjects

Dr Tom Harrison, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham What have you been working on? The...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Nobody puts EAL in the corner

A DfE-convened national working party on English as an additional language is long overdue. Practitioners, researchers and the subject...

Diane Leedham
Diane Leedham
Opinion

Prepare well and school trips can be fun

Accidents happen, but what if they are on a school trip that you are in charge of? Jade Kent...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Why did some results dip last year? Ofqual reveals all…

Last year, on GCSE results day, panicked phone calls came through to the Schools Week office. There were dips...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

What is teaching for mastery in maths?

I was very interested to read the item in last week’s Schools Week that suggested pupils in one primary school were...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Opinion

What would make an all-academy system work?

The schools landscape could look very different from how it does today, quite quickly, if the government’s vision for...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips