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Opinion: Solutions

How can schools balance wellbeing and accountability?

Ross McGill sets out the key factors for creating a resilient culture of wellbeing that can withstand the pressures…

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Ross Morrison McGill

Religious education

Young people need guidance to explore their faith safely online

RE’s decline means young people are increasingly seeking answers to life’s big questions online, writes Sabah Ahmedi, and schools…

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Sabah Ahmedi

The Knowledge

How stressed are teachers compared with other professions?

Educators won’t be surprised but these numbers are harrowing, says Russell Glass

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Russell Glass

Opinion: Attendance

How new attendance guidelines could affect anxious pupils

New guidelines that could come into force from September will mean schools need a new approach for anxious pupils,…

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Stephanie Smith

Admissions

It’s time to end the scandal of religious tests for church schools

If universities behaved like this they’d face potential closure, writes Nick Hillman, so why do we accept it from…

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Nick Hillman

Opinion: Accountability

Accountability must focus more on improving and less on approving

The thinking that brought about our current accountability system can’t get us out of the problems it has caused,…

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Les Walton

Opinion: SEND

How to build an RSHE curriculum that works for SEND students

Nicole Rodden shares advice on developing crucial RSHE provision for pupils with SEND who are particularly vulnerable when navigating…

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Nicole Rodden

The Knowledge

What can the Covid exam crisis teach us about policy making?

New research lays bare how a host of problems with England’s policy making led to avoidable mistakes and poor…

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Jo-Anne Baird and Margaret Arnott

FSM

More than half of school caterers said they had or were considering using more processed ingredients in school dinners due to cost and supply issues

School food policy requires a shift from ministers and campaigners

Universal free school meals are a distraction from a simple change that would see food reach 200,000 pupils who…

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Andy Jolley

Must Read

Opinion: Edtech

AI bias poses serious risks for learners with SEND

The promise of personalised learning masks very real risks that demand careful attention from educators and policymakers

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Michael Finlay

Opinion: Curriculum

What teachers want from a reformed English GCSE

The dialogue surrounding curriculum reform in England, particularly within GCSE English, remains as essential as ever. Recent insights from…

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Leandri Dannhauser

Opinion: Teaching Commission

Here’s how we can finally begin to fix the teacher supply crisis

If we’re going to hang on to more of them, then teachers need a better deal than summer respite…

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Baroness Mary Bousted

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

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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