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Opinion: Edtech

We’re opening Oak up to help teachers and make educational AI more reliable

John Roberts explains how open government licensing will make Oak National Academy a launchpad for lesson planners, curriculum designers…

JL Dutaut

John Roberts

Opinion: Workforce

Making teaching attractive again must be priority one for the next government

Any incoming government will have to put an end to the failed experiment of competition that is driving teachers…

JL Dutaut

Jonny Uttley

Cost-of-living

How trusts are responding to the cost-of-living crisis

The cost-of-living crisis has had a profound impact on academy trust operations. Almost one in three respondents to a…

John Dickens

Nicola West Jones

Opinion: Accountability

What headteachers mean when they say headship has changed

It’s time policy makers and accountability caught up with the new reality of headship, explains Sam Strickland, so here’s…

JL Dutaut

Sam Strickland

Teacher pay

Three ways the government is failing teachers over pay

The government’s vague reference to economic theory to justify its strategy on pay ignores important truths about motivation, writes…

JL Dutaut

Yvonne Williams

Opinion: Workforce

The Knowledge. What works to improve recruitment and retention?

Becky Francis sets out key findings from today’s new EEF review of international evidence on successful measures to recruit…

JL Dutaut

Becky Francis

Opinion: Workforce

The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

If we solve the retention crisis, the recruitment crisis will follow

Staff attrition is a marker of the health of our education system and our diagnosis calls for immediate intervention,…

JL Dutaut

Sinéad McBrearty

Opinion

Solutions: How to prepare for the next disruptive social media trend

The recent wave of so-called Tik-Tok protests affecting schools achieved a lot of coverage in the media and caused…

JL Dutaut

Theresa Kerr and Richard Wright-PhillipsSolicitor, Education support team, Winckworth Sherwood

Maths

Together we can deliver maths excellence in every class

Maths is a powerful driver of social mobility and we must do more to ensure more disadvantaged students stay…

Schools Week Reporter

Si Coyle

Must Read

Opinion

AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker

12h

Professor Haili Hughes

12h

Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens

Becks Boomer-Clark

Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker

David Clayton

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

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

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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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