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Teacher strikes

Why I won’t be joining today’s strike action

As teachers head out for their second day of strike action, James Lipscombe explains why he walked out for…

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James Lipscombe

Trauma

Critical incidents: Five principles to plan for the unplannable

Every critical incident and every community’s response is unique, says Beck Ferrari, but some key principles can promote recovery…

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Beck Ferrari

The Knowledge

How are governors responding to the cost-of-living crisis?

A new survey ahead of National School Governors’ Awareness Day highlights the pressures governing bodies are under to respond…

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Steve Barker

Enrichment

Results from a new Sutton Trust survey show the proportion of heads reporting cuts to school trips has more than doubled since last year

Lack of funding threatens a neo-feudal age of cultural capital

Cultural capital is becoming the preserve of the few as enrichment is pushed out by the funding squeeze, says…

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Miles Huppatz

Opinion: Workforce

Teachers must resist the squeeze on their autonomy

We must confront the growing centralisation of teaching to reverse the alarming declines in recruitment, retention and job satisfaction,…

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Daniel Kebede

Social mobility

Regional self-empowerment is possible. We know how…

We must look past lazy myths of north-south divide and American dream to remodel social mobility around regional needs,…

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Sir Michael Barber and Lee Elliot Majorprofessor of social mobility, University of Exeter

Vulnerable pupils

Vulnerable adolescents deserve better than a maze of bureaucracy

A new public accounts committee report outlines a costly and decades-long failure to bring services together to support vulnerable…

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Dame Meg Hillier, MP

Opinion: SEND

Standardising SEND? Be careful what you wish for!

With the wrong incentives and support in place, national standards for SEND could become a disguise for ongoing failure,…

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Barney Angliss

Higher education access

Elite universities protect privilege – but schools can break the barriers

Schools can help under-represented students break into the top universities and overcome imposter syndrome when they get there, write…

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Professor Kalwant Bhopal and Martin Myers

Must Read

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

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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…

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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…

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Professor Karl Kitching

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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