Opinion: Sustainability

2025 is too little too late for sustainability education

The curriculum reforms on offer in response to climate change are not only unequal to the task, writes Jo…

JL Dutaut
Jo Sale
Teacher pay

Pay award: This ‘landmark’ settlement lands wide of the mark

What was meant to be a fully-funded and inflation-busting settlement has managed to be neither and please no one,…

JL Dutaut
Micon Metcalfe
National Curriculum

We must not sleepwalk into ditching the national curriculum

The schools bill threatens to make the national curriculum obsolete, writes Tim Oates, and that’s not a good thing…

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Tim Oates
Teacher pay

This pay award confirms my decision to leave

This ‘best and fairest pay deal’ is a timely reminder of why I decided to leave, writes Will Yates….

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William Yates
Opinion
Liz Truss

‘We got teachers the best and fairest pay deal we possibly could’

The education secretary writes about next year’s pay deal, and his ‘admiration’ for teachers

Freddie Whittaker
James Cleverly
Opinion: Sustainability

Heatwave: Keeping cool is a concern for the future too

There is little schools can do to mitigate extreme weather without investment to make the estate more resilient, efficient…

JL Dutaut
Steven Reynolds
The Knowledge

Five research insights that got us thinking in 2021/22

The last word of every Schools Week edition is often the first you’ll hear of new educational research that…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Funding
Most schools have taken at least one measure to reduce spending in the last year, a new survey shows

Falling pupil numbers require an urgent policy response

The Department for Education have just published their latest pupil projections for the next decade. These predict that there…

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Jenna Julius
Opinion: Mental health

Mental health first aid is as important as physical first aid

St John Ambulance led the campaign to put physical first aid on the curriculum, writes one Year 13 volunteer,…

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Edwards

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

Labour’s bill could tie schools to inequity through uniform

The government’s well-intentioned policy on school uniform could be undermined by failing to grasp its broader interplay with inclusion

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Caroline Barlow and Tess Howard
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
Finola Wilson

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

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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,…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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