Assessment

Are we asking the right questions on assessment?

A new AQA report proposes new assessment models for the millions left lacking critical skills by the current format

JL Dutaut
Reza Schwitzer
Opinion: Academy trusts

When it’s done right, centralisation is collaboration

Steve Brownlow explores one of the key tensions at the heart of school trusts and how to balance agency…

JL Dutaut
Steve Brownlow
Opinion: Academy trusts

The RAAC crisis proves the power of being in a MAT

It hasn’t been a cake-walk, but the strength in depth our MAT provides has allowed us to weather the…

JL Dutaut
James Browning
Opinion: Academy trusts

Three priorities to set the MAT-led system on a course to success

Steve Taylor sets out the Queen Street Group’s top priorities for the year ahead – and to set the…

JL Dutaut
Steve Taylor
Religious education

The RE Council at 50: Champions of a thoroughly modern subject

As the Religious Education Council turns 50, its chair argues that the subject is more relevant than ever in…

JL Dutaut
Sarah Lane Cawte
Politics

Success of society depends on education being a top policy priority

The Fair Education Alliance shares its cross-sector manifesto for a fair education system and argues it needs to be…

JL Dutaut
Janeen Hayat
Opinion: Solutions

Three ways one simple survey is improving our PSHE provision

Aimee Stevens sets out how NHS research is powering her school’s PSHE teaching with data, influencing its curriculum and…

JL Dutaut
Aimee Stevens
Artificial Intelligence

The first exams of the AI age are over, so what now?

How we act now will determine whether AI widens attainment gaps or helps us to bridge them

JL Dutaut
Jason Tomlinson
The Knowledge

How are cost-of-living pressures on families affecting schools?

NFER’s data reveals how much the cost of living crisis is exacerbating pressures on schools, explains Megan Lucas

JL Dutaut
Megan Lucas

Must Read

Opinion

Pupils told us how school feels. Now we must act on what they say

The Department for Education’s newly published pupil experience data should stop all of us in our tracks

Freddie Whittaker
Cara Cinnamon
Opinion

Children are struggling with reading. A different approach is needed

Rather than intensifying ‘rigorous and systematic’ phonics programmes, schools should be confident in finding new ways to address pupils’…

Freddie Whittaker
Dominic Wyse
Opinion

How we tackled misinformation in our primary curriculum 

Schools need to approach difficult topics in a sensitive, age-appropriate way, writes Sam French

Freddie Whittaker
Sam French

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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