A-level results 2023

What schools need to know about clearing, and how they can help

Teachers are best placed to support students by knowing the three different clearing personas, says Clare Marchant

John Dickens
Clare Marchant
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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
The Knowledge

Five research findings that improved our knowledge this year

JL Dutaut picks out key insights from this year’s Schools Week research column, The Knowledge

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Opinion: Mental health

How to get the true measure of wellbeing interventions

Anna Smee offers guidance on how to ensure increasingly necessary wellbeing measures have the desired impact

JL Dutaut
Anna Smee
Opinion: Accountability

We will not forget Ruth – and we will not let Ofsted forget her

The inspectorate’s response shows a complete lack of introspection and humility, says Edmund Barnett-Ward

JL Dutaut
Edmund Barnett-Ward
Opinion: Workforce

Creating a CPD entitlement that works: TDT to launch an expert group

Knowledge from across the sector will ensure Labour’s policy delivers its potential and doesn’t turn into a costly wasted…

JL Dutaut
Gareth Conyard
Exams 2023
exam grades

Saved by the bell – but exam reliability questions won’t go away

Ministers and regulators will eventually have to answer to the pressing issue of exam grade reliability, writes Dennis Sherwood

JL Dutaut
Dennis Sherwood
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

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
Exams 2023

The long shadow of Covid still hangs over exams

Examiners, admissions officers and commentators would do well to remember the disruption of the past few years when 2023…

JL Dutaut
Neil Renton

Must Read

Opinion

AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker
Professor Haili Hughes
Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton

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,…

JL Dutaut
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

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
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Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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