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
Tutoring

Tutoring take-up should ring alarm bells for long-term sustainability

We are a long way from the tipping point where tutoring becomes business as usual, everywhere, writes Nick Brook

Freddie Whittaker
Nick Brook
Opinion: Solutions

Four ways to improve teacher CPD and make it impactful

Emma Wilks offers simple strategies to design CPD that reflects what’s happening in the classroom and avoids information overload…

JL Dutaut
Emma Wilks

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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