Opinion: Workforce

How our trust is beating the recruitment and retention blues

Investing in an internal recruitment business has been transformative for the trust, its schools and its pupils, explains Lee...

JL Dutaut
Lee Mason-Ellis
Opinion

Fix children’s social care to improve their GCSE grades

Policymakers must not ignore what happens outside the school gate, writes Joe Lane

Freddie Whittaker
Joe Lane
SEND review

Families face a postcode lottery for SEND support. That needs to change

Schools work tirelessly to meet pupils' needs, but often this job has been too hard, writes children's minister Claire...

Freddie Whittaker
Claire Coutinho MP
A-level results 2023

We need a funded plan to close the regional attainment gap

We know why regional gaps are growing, says Nick Harrison, so it's time for government to start making changes

JL Dutaut
Nick Harrison
A-level results 2023

Our broken regulatory system disadvantages English pupils

The discrepancies between grades for English pupils and their Welsh and Northern Irish couterparts are indefensible, says Jon Coles

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Sir Jon Coles
Exams

How sitting an exam re-affirmed my respect for our students

I still believe exams to be the best way of testing academic knowledge and understanding but they’re no bagatelle,...

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James Handscombe
Opinion: Mental health

Pupil wellbeing: What can schools realistically do?

With the right focus, policy can empower schools to help tackle the youth mental health crisis, says Loic Menzies

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Loic Menzies
Politics

The curriculum Labour is looking for is already here

Why re-invent the national curriculum when the international baccalaureate already delivers everything Labour wants?

JL Dutaut
Jo Sale
T levels

T Levels: The story so far and the shape of things to come

The pros, the cons, how the new qualifications are performing and how to prepare for their evolution

JL Dutaut
Lisa Morrison Coulthard