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The Knowledge

What makes leaders most effective in improving student outcomes?

A new programme builds on evidence that deliberative leadership is more effective than intuition in boosting student outcomes, explains…

JL Dutaut

Viviane Robinson

Cyber security

How to respond to a cyber attack to minimise damage

Event the best-protected systems can be breached, says James Griffiths, so it’s important to plan for what to do…

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James Griffiths

Apprenticeships

Proposed ITT partnerships in 'cold spot' areas for teacher training have fallen through

How apprenticeships can improve school recruitment

From teaching assistants to school business managers, apprenticeships are excellent pathways to recruit, develop and retain staff, says Justine…

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Justine Kenny

Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships: It’s time to cross the Baker Dearing line

Apprenticeships are accessed least by those who could benefit from them most and schools are part of the solution,…

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Jo Foster and Katherine Doherty

School budgets

Budgets: Continuing pressures mean careful forecasting is required

Pressures on budgets are unlikely to relent and school and trust leaders will need to keep their eyes on…

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Leyla Tovey

Women in the workplace

Education can’t tackle misogyny while it is complicit in it

We must confront the misogyny, sexism, harrassment and abuse that are still a normal part of women’s experience of…

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Niamh Sweeney

Opinion

The online safety bill leaves schools exposed

Schools can do plenty to teach children and families about online harms, says Diana Young, but government is ultimately…

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Diana Young

Opinion

The Knowledge. How to benefit from all oracy has to offer

Oracy is a growing priority for teachers and our new impact report shows why that’s right and how to…

JL Dutaut

Amy Gaunt

Opinion: Solutions

How schools can protect against cyber attacks

Increasing concerns about cybersecurity are justified, says Jamie Moles, but there’s plenty schools can do to protect themselves and…

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Jamie Moles

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

John Dickens

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…

John Dickens

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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