Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens
Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes
SEND solutions

We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP

New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way...

John Dickens
Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge
The Knowledge

Are schools pushing views about race on their pupils?

Our new research shows some students’ free speech is being limited – but not in the ways some commentators...

JL Dutaut
Professor Karl Kitching
Opinion: Politics

Continuity at the top is crucial to Labour’s opportunity mission

Talk of a reshuffle may have the education secretary’s detractors excited, but it would be bad news for a...

JL Dutaut
Simon Kidwell
The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

JL Dutaut
Michael Fordham
Opinion: Workforce

We’re backing teachers because we have a job to do together

Today's investment is a clear sign of the government's commitment to partnership in delivering high and rising standards for...

JL Dutaut
Bridget Phillipson
Opinion: Legal

Legal: How to manage restructuring, redundancies and industrial action

With more budget cuts on the horizon, here are some answers to the questions leaders ask us most about...

JL Dutaut
Sarah Linden
The Knowledge

How schools are evolving to meet new and persistent challenges

Our new State of the Nation in Education report is a testament to the sector’s impatience for innovation in...

JL Dutaut
Dr Kate Chhatwal
The Knowledge

Six lessons from the biggest ever study on pupil engagement

Trends arising from a study of over 100,000 pupils sheds light on how school leaders can best tackle attendance,...

JL Dutaut
Jonny Sobczyk Boddington