Opinion: Attendance

Persistent absence: ‘Obsessing about attendance’ is not enough

Post-Covid attendance rates signal a deeper malaise that requires more complex solutions than a punitive approach, says Jeffery Quaye…

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Dr Jeffery Quaye
ChatGPT

Children misusing ChatGPT? It’s the adults you need to watch

Behind the hand-wringing over ChatGPT empowering children to cheat is a much bigger threat: adults misusing these nascent educational…

JL Dutaut
Cesare Aloisi
Opinion: SEND
A study will look at the Covid legacy for Year 11 pupils.

6 changes every leader can make for a more autism-friendly school

Marking autism acceptance week, Jo Galloway sets out six small changes every school can make to be more inclusive…

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Jo Galloway
Opinion: Solutions

How to ensure neuroeducation actually improves teacher performance 

The rapid revolution in neuroeducation risks being lost to mutations and poor implementation unless we shift from ‘what works’…

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Ross Morrison McGill
Opinion

How the EEF has scaled up and levelled up Covid catch-up

An independent evaluation of EEF Accelerator Fund activity highlights the work’s success at scaling up catch-up interventions in under-served…

JL Dutaut
Becky Francis
UTCs

How trusts can turn around a faltering but unique UTC sector

Our trusts have proven the nay-sayers wrong and shown what UTC provision can truly deliver for pupils and communities,…

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Dean Ashton and Owen McColgan
Racism

Why I’m asking white teachers to start talking about race

We won’t tackle the deep inequalities that still keep educators of colour out of leadership until white teachers and…

JL Dutaut
Viv Grant
Climate change

Net zero won’t be met without new rules on capital investment

The vast school estate can’t be upgraded to meet student needs and net zero targets because its custodians are…

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Tim Warneford
Climate change

Climate Change: Curriculum must face the inconvenient truth 

This week’s ‘final warning’ to avoid catastrophic climate change means school and trust leaders must stop kicking the can…

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion

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…

JL Dutaut
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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