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Testing DfE Transparency – How easy is it to see the Register of Interests?

Were the Dead Sea Scrolls any easier to discover, I wonder? My setting was the more mundane headquarters of...

Ann McGauran
Ann McGauran
Opinion

Do the education manifesto pledges stand up?

It’s the election next week and all the parties have waved their education banners long and hard. But the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

If I were education secretary…

To deliver the best possible education for all children we need motivated, well-paid and respected teachers. School budgets must be sufficient...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

Vocational qualifications don’t need more ‘rigour’

Despite the many flaws, teachers must act with integrity when delivering and assessing the constantly changing BTECs The BTEC...

Oliver Beach
Oliver Beach
Opinion

If I were education secretary…

As the chief executive of a multi-academy trust, my team of three executives and myself spend nearly all of...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

The practicalities of making students study English to 18

More teachers will be needed to teach students who don’t really want to be there. . . and just...

Gwen Nelson
Gwen Nelson
Opinion

While some children get Apple Watches – others go hungry

Half of my facebook timeline are excited about a £500 Apple Watch; the other half are despairing over news that teachers...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

If you’re poor, you won’t turn up to school

School-Home Support can offer practical help to schools, families and pupils. Pupils like Dana, 7, who was missing 30...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Closing the science gender divide in schools

The latest statistics from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the school science gender divide...

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott