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The Knowledge

Retention: School leadership matters more than you think

Pay and reduced working hours might help, but school leadership approaches are vital to help you to hold on…

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Owen Carter

Opinion

Stereotypes limit our ideas of success for our pupils

Stereotypes about what success looks like – and for whom – lead us to narrow the curriculum in ways…

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Alison Kriel

safeguarding

Safeguarding: Pressure on designated leads is alarming

A new survey reveals the toll of increasing demand on school safeguarding leads as the cost-of-living crisis bites, says…

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Helen King

Energy costs

Energy costs: Decarbonisation is now an achievable priority

Balancing short-term budget pressures with long-term investment in energy efficiencies and decarbonisation is complex but possible, writes Steven Reynolds

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Steven Reynolds

Climate change

COP27: Sealing education’s role in climate action

COP27 is bringing green education further into the climate change policy mainstream, writes Eleanor Staines Shaw, but action is…

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Eleanor Staines Shaw

Anti-bullying week

Anti-bullying week: Four tips for a whole-school approach

Schools can draw on new support to develop their anti-bullying practices – and these four tips are crucial to…

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Miriam Sorgenfrei and Rahi Popat

Opinion: SEND

My recommendations for a transformation of the SEND system

Children’s commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza sets out three ambitions and a host of recommendations to reform the SEND…

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Dame Rachel de Souza

Opinion: Attendance

Attendance: Fear of violence is a key driver of absence

A new report reveals that violence at and around school is a key driver of low school attendance -…

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Jon Yates

Opinion

Funding cuts make white paper promises a ‘faraway fantasy’

Even the most efficient schools are ‘highly exposed, disarmed and unable to weather the financial storm’, writes Stephen Morales….

Stephen Morales

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill’s foreseeable consequences – and its…

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19h

Meg Powell-Chandler

19h

Opinion: Solutions

How to mitigate disadvantage in the classroom

We must get under the bonnet of disadvantage as it applies to individuals to have any chance of mitigating…

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Finola Wilson

Opinion: Workforce

The sector has taken another big step in parent-teacher support

Developments at the National Education Union’s conference give hope that we may soon stem the flow of parents out…

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Emma Sheppard

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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