Teacher training

ECF: Getting the best from our second-year trainees

As trainees across the country settle into their second year under the new early career framework, Jane Cruikshank…

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Jane Cruickshank
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Edtech’s solution to the governance gap

With two-thirds of governing bodies reporting at least one vacancy, Simon Hay offers an edtech solution to recruitment –…

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Simon Hay
Schools white paper

MAT-isation: A culture of lowered expectations for heads

The white paper proposes a new system-wide tier of leadership that will see headteachers lowered from professionals to store…

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Hans Broekman
Teaching and learning

How I learned to stop worrying about my stroke and love cogsci

After a stroke affected her executive function, Tabitha McIntosh explains how her journey of recovery has meant embracing ideas…

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Tabitha McIntosh
The Knowledge
tutoring randstad

NTP: What lessons can we learn from year one?

Lee Elliot Major responds to the NFER’s new evaluation report of the first year of the NTP – the…

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Lee Elliot Major
Opinion: Workforce

We need to talk about workload (again)

Workload continues to cause a retention challenge, writes Reka Budai, but we’re missing important detail to tackle it by…

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Reka Budai
Behaviour

Assemblies: surfing the ripple to keep pupils focused

After wiping out on a wave of disruption of his own making, James Handscombe reflects on how to keep…

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James Handscombe
Inclusion

Time for change: let’s end discriminatory hair policies

As well as asking teachers to deliver lessons, school leaders can show their commitment to Black History Month by…

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Kate Williams
Opinion

Pre-pandemic school standards won’t return as quickly as we’d like

Schools are weathering the storm better than some public services, but a lack of funding will slow recovery

Freddie Whittaker
Philip Nye

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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Meg Powell-Chandler
Opinion: Solutions
mental health

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…

JL Dutaut
Emma Sheppard

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,…

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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
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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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