Opinion: Policy

Three reasons this week’s STRB letter is game-changing for women

Long-running campaigns have been ackowledged and action will surely follow on fair pay and conditions

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Vivienne Porritt
The Research Leader

What’s next for ‘evidence-informed’ education?

‘Evidence-informed’ has become an easy and often empty marketing tag for CPD providers. Here’s how we guard against its...

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Harry Madgwick
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Teaching’s narrative universe needs a reboot

Teaching has an image problem and fixing it must be a top priority for the government and the sector...

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Tiffany Beck
Opinion: Policy

Government must square up to unscrupulous teaching agencies

Fixing recruitment will require government to face down some unprincipled players and support some dedicated staff on the margins

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Baljinder Kuller
Opinion: Policy

Finding the missing piece of the school improvement puzzle

A new research commission aims to unearth rapidly scalable insights about student engagement data – and you can be...

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Jonny Sobczyk Boddington
Opinion: Solutions

How to carry out social media checks on job applicants

Here’s how to ensure our modern hiring processes are legal and ethical – even if we can’t stop all...

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Dan Morrow
The Research Leader

NTP: What we’ve learned – and haven’t – about tutoring’s impact

The way the National Tutoring Programme was evaluated left little scope to determine its impact, but that shouldn’t put...

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Dr Ben Styles
Opinion: Leadership

School improvement: All eyes on the OpEx prize

New ISBL research shows the few who have embedded the operational excellence approach have reaped benefits that could be...

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Bethan Cullen
Opinion: Solutions

Maximising your teaching assistants team

To mark National Teaching Assistants' Day, Angus Weir explains how his Birmingham academy has embraced their talents - with...

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Angus Weir