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Worforce

The seven stages of losing your work buddy

Teachers everywhere are feeling a sense of loss as a valued colleague’s departure looms, so Gavin Simpson and Natasha…

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Gavin Simpson and Natasha Lawrence

The Knowledge

How can ‘quick-fire’ research help us answer timely questions?

The EEF’s Amy Ellis-Thompson unpicks the findings from new quick-fire research designed to test strategies to boost pupil engagement…

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Amy Ellis-Thompson

Social care

Why schools are vital to children’s social care reform

The statistics are stark and it’s clear schools alone can’t solve the problems, writes Ed Reza Schwitzer, but they…

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Ed Reza Schwitzer

Covid

Making practical sense of Covid learning loss research

New data on learning loss is helpful, write Joan Mill and Jon Andrews, but our accompanying resources could make…

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Joan Mill and Jon Andrews

School food

Government food strategy: A disappointment but not the end

The government has chosen to ignore clear recommendations and excellent practice, writes Stephanie Slater, but the issue of school…

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Stephanie Slater

Social mobility

Reframing social mobility: The new poverty of aspiration?

Katharine Birbalsingh’s talk of narrowing wealth gaps and celebrating people’s varied talents and successes is full of wonderful aspirations,…

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DR JEFFERY QUAYE

Schools white paper

Localism is key to the white paper – but what does that look like?

The schools white paper calls for strong local partnerships, writes Jonathan Crossley-Holland, but we can’t have them without strong…

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Jonathan Crossley-Holland

Social mobility

This is what I really said about social mobility

Social mobility is complex but the Telegraph’s headline about my speech was the opposite of what I said, writes…

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Katharine Birbalsingh

The Knowledge

What do schools need to embed sustainability?

New research contains the first parent polling on sustainability education and shows what support schools need most to meet…

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Nicola Walshe

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…

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Meg Powell-Chandler

Opinion: Solutions

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…

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Finola Wilson

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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