Opinion: Accountability

How Ofsted can ensure inclusion and equity go hand in hand

Ofsted must ensure its new framework for inclusion is applied consistently and fairly in every school

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Lee Elliot Major
The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

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Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

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Andrew O’Neill
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but…

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Matt Hood
Opinion: Legal

What the supreme court’s ruling on ‘sex’ means for schools

It’s been represented as a consequential judgment, but the supreme court decision’s impact on schools will be limited –…

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Graham Burns and Clare Wigzell
The Knowledge

Is young people’s mental health finally recovering after Covid?

Our new report reveals grounds for optimism that the post-Covid mental health crisis is ebbing – but no room…

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Jane Lunnon and Jon Needham
Opinion: Academy trusts

Let’s put an end to the myth of academy ‘freedoms’

The “freedoms” that academies are making most use of are not the kind of freedoms we want them to…

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Sir Alan Wood
Lockdown legacies

What we’ve learned from five years of mental health support

Nothing has reversed the post-Covid rise in mental health need nationally, but our work highlights some effective practices

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Jaime Smith MBE
Opinion: Workforce
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Retention: What will it take to make more schools ‘sticky’?

The latest evidence to the Teaching Commission lays bare the effects of high-stakes accountability on teacher retention

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Nansi Ellis

Must Read

Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

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Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

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Leora Cruddas
Labour’s first year

SEND: Hope still prevails, but Labour must learn to listen

Treating the specialist and alternative sectors as afterthoughts means ministers have missed chances to progress towards a more inclusive…

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Dr Nic Crossley

ITT

ITT

Degree apprenticeships are key to increasing and diversifying recruitment

Work to deliver the new qualification should continue at pace to meet recruitment challenges by making teaching more accessible,…

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Melanie Renowden
ITT

ITT: Which is the odd one out?

The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

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David Spendlove
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EXAMS

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
Exams
The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

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Stephen Caldwell
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