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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

Opinion: Attendance

Absenteeism: How we’ll rebuild a culture of school attendance

A combination of artificial intelligence and thoughtful nudges could turn the dial on worsening post-pandemic absenteeism, writes Arfan Ismail

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Arfan Ismail

The Knowledge

Covid toll: What we’ve learned about teacher anxiety

New research reveals the extent of the Covid pandemic’s impact on teacher anxiety levels and how different groups have…

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John Jerrim

Opinion: Policy

Oak is a symptom of curriculum mediocrity, not the treatment

Off-the-peg curricula are the wrong answer to a problem caused by political failure and will only perpetuate the perma-crisis,…

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Carolyn Roberts

Must Read

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

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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