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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

Politics

What Labour can learn from visiting trusts like ours

Guy Shears reflects on the shadow education minister’s visit to one of his schools and what he hopes it…

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Guy Shears

School improvement

21st-Century learning saved our deprived school

Rescuing Richmond Academy from poor performance meant ditching ideologies and trying something new, explains Rachael Howell

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Rachael Howell

Child poverty

Dear Amanda. I’m reporting a serious safeguarding concern

An anonymous director of education calls out ‘the big ask’ from schools and calls on chief inspector, Amanda Spielman…

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Anonymous

Opinion: Accountability

New Ofsted research looks at the role of MATs in inspections

Ofsted reform should focus on inspection reliability first

Our new research casts doubt on the reliability of ‘Inadequate’ Ofsted judgments, explains Sam Sims, but any attempt at…

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Sam Sims

Opinion: Sustainability

Sustainability: Piecemeal progress will open a ‘green gap’

Some progress has been made towards key goals in the DfE’s sustainability strategy, say Keya Lamba and Shweta Bahri,…

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Shweta Bahri and Keya Lamba

Teacher pay

How much can pay improve recruitment and retention?

Pay is an important lever to attract and hang onto teachers, says the NFER’s workforce lead, but it’s not…

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Jack Worth

Disadvantage gap

How to ensure cross-sector work doesn’t feed inequality

Many well-meaning initiatives to support ‘disadvantaged’ schools and pupils actually perpetuate the divides they purport to challenge, writes Heidi…

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Heidi Heinemann

Teacher pay

Teacher pay: Keegan is right but she should go further

Gillian Keegan’s proposal to vary teacher pay by subject is right and the same logic could make it easier…

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Michael Gosling

Must Read

Opinion: Curriculum review

Four steps to improve curriculum and assessment in science

The need and appetite for reform of the science curriculum are clear. Here’s how we can deliver for students,…

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Les Hopper

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…

John Dickens

Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge

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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