STEM

Four ways to tackle inequalities in science

Monique Darrell sets out her top tips for overcoming persistent barriers that hold certain groups back from success in…

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Monique Darrell
Opinion: Sustainability

Sustainability: Cutting red meat will make schools greener

Saving the planet may feel like one job too many but cutting red meat from meals could have a…

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Thomas Martell
ChatGPT

ChatGPT: How to guard against AI-generated essays

We should worry less about students using AI to cheat the system and more about a system that can…

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Yvonne Williams
Social mobility

Why I’m leaving the social mobility commission

It’s been a successful year and I leave the team in great shape – but my presence is only…

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Katharine Birbalsingh
Numeracy

Maths to 18 for all means rethinking maths altogether

The PM’s maths proposal has rightly been met with cynicism but it does present an opportunity to rethink our…

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Mark Boylan
Community

School networks are vital to community safety

Schools can’t provide everything children and families need to meet this crisis – but they can act as vital…

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Christine Stansfield
Opinion

To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate

‘Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means’

Freddie Whittaker
Meg Price
Mental health

Mental health: How schools are mitigating poverty

Schools are increasingly mitigating the effects of poverty to safeguard children’s wellbeing and learning, writes Kate Richardson

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Kate Richardson
Christmas

A Christmas mission from GCHQ

Schools Week brings you a classroom activity for your pupils from GCHQ, with love

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Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

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Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

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Leora Cruddas
Labour’s first year

SEND: Hope still prevails, but Labour must learn to listen

Treating the specialist and alternative sectors as afterthoughts means ministers have missed chances to progress towards a more inclusive…

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Dr Nic Crossley

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

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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