Opinion: Attendance

How new attendance guidelines could affect anxious pupils

New guidelines that could come into force from September will mean schools need a new approach for anxious pupils,…

JL Dutaut
Stephanie Smith
Admissions

It’s time to end the scandal of religious tests for church schools

If universities behaved like this they’d face potential closure, writes Nick Hillman, so why do we accept it from…

JL Dutaut
Nick Hillman
Opinion: Accountability

Accountability must focus more on improving and less on approving

The thinking that brought about our current accountability system can’t get us out of the problems it has caused,…

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
Opinion: SEND

How to build an RSHE curriculum that works for SEND students

Nicole Rodden shares advice on developing crucial RSHE provision for pupils with SEND who are particularly vulnerable when navigating…

JL Dutaut
Nicole Rodden
The Knowledge
exam fees exams GCSEs A-levels

What can the Covid exam crisis teach us about policy making?

New research lays bare how a host of problems with England’s policy making led to avoidable mistakes and poor…

JL Dutaut
Jo-Anne Baird and Margaret Arnott
FSM
More than half of school caterers said they had or were considering using more processed ingredients in school dinners due to cost and supply issues

School food policy requires a shift from ministers and campaigners

Universal free school meals are a distraction from a simple change that would see food reach 200,000 pupils who…

JL Dutaut
Andy Jolley
Professional development

The ECF’s problem isn’t workload. Workload is the ECF’s

New YouGov polling what teachers really mean when they say workload is an issue for the early career framework,…

JL Dutaut
Marie Hamer
Artificial Intelligence

Keegan is right to back AI to reduce teacher workload

Ministerial announcements on reducing teacher workload are nothing new, writes Ed Reza Schwitzer, but Keegan’s bet that AI can…

JL Dutaut
Ed Reza Schwitzer
Opinion

It’s time to decide what our schools and teachers are for

Are schools education specialists or the front line of children’s services? Without clarity we are failing children and staff

Freddie Whittaker
Sinéad Mc Brearty

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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
Professor Haili Hughes
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

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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