Artificial Intelligence

What medicine can teach us about regulating AI in education

The critical issue is accountability. If an AI tool gives inaccurate results, who is responsible?

JL Dutaut
Alex Scharaschkin
RAAC
The DfE is

The DfE has left schools between a RAAC and a hard place

To close or not to close? The RAAC issue leaves schools in a tough spot with no obvious end…

JL Dutaut
Andrea Squires
Strikes
Dr Patrick Roach

‘Our action will challenge 48-hour working week expectations’

NASUWT general secretary Patrick Roach explains why his members will be taking industrial action this month, and how it…

John Dickens
Patrick Roach
Local authorities

How Suffolk’s schools are putting collaboration over competition

The Suffolk Education Partnership shows there is no rift that can’t be bridged for the benefit of learners, says…

JL Dutaut
Andrew Berry
Opinion: Accountability

DfE should act to prevent Covid impact on GCSE performance

Early data suggests this year’s performance data risks being unfairly skewed without changes to account for the ongoing legacy…

JL Dutaut
Duncan Baldwin
Opinion: Mental health

The ‘Muslim problem’ is actually an opportunity for schools

Understanding how faith acts as a motivator for Muslim children and young people can only positively contribute to schools’…

JL Dutaut
Sabah Gilani
Opinion: Workforce

How our trust is beating the recruitment and retention blues

Investing in an internal recruitment business has been transformative for the trust, its schools and its pupils, explains Lee…

JL Dutaut
Lee Mason-Ellis
Politics

The curriculum Labour is looking for is already here

Why re-invent the national curriculum when the international baccalaureate already delivers everything Labour wants?

JL Dutaut
Jo Sale
Opinion

Fix children’s social care to improve their GCSE grades

Policymakers must not ignore what happens outside the school gate, writes Joe Lane

Freddie Whittaker
Joe Lane

Must Read

Opinion

Banning phones in schools is a lazy opt-out  

No one disagrees unfettered use of smartphones in schools is a bad thing, but indulging in a moral panic…

Freddie Whittaker
Hannah Carter
Opinion

Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong

Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy

Freddie Whittaker
Seamus Murphy
Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens
Sir Hamid Patel

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

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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