The Knowledge

Could Tik Tok connect young people to nature?

Mobile technologies and social media aren’t necessarily the barrier to young people’s access to the outside world we perceive…

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Jack Reed
Localism

How the north east will seize devolution to tackle child poverty

Our combined authority is leading the way in bringing a fragmented system back together to support schools in mitigating…

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Adrian Dougherty
Localism

MATs are local and need to be part of local strategic partnerships 

New research shows the important role MATs can play for their localities, writes Jonathan Crossley-Holland, but obsctacles remain on…

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Crossley-Holland
ChatGPT

AI allows us to assess differently – and we should

Recent developments in AI technology show that we need to rethink what we assess and how we assess it,…

JL Dutaut
Priya Lakhani
ChatGPT

ChatGPT: Why AI should be banned from assessment and regulated

Integrating AI into education is inevitable but exams should be preserved and the technology tightly regulated, writes Daisy Christodoulou

JL Dutaut
Daisy Christodoulou
English

We must rethink English for our times to prevent its decline

Too many pupils see English simply as a gateway to further education. So the subject must adapt to reflect…

JL Dutaut
Rachael Green
Strikes

Why strike? Because teachers are desperate and so are their pupils

Teachers have voted to walk out of their classrooms in a desperate attempt to stop so many from walking…

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Niamh Sweeney
The Knowledge

NTP: What impact has online tuition had?

A new report shows online tuition leads to progress on multiple fronts with particular benefits for disadvantaged pupils, say…

JL Dutaut
Kristina Altoft and Will Chambers
Curriculum

Our challenging times demand more than academic attainment

Schools must be more than exam factories and that requires an holistic approach to students and staff development alike,…

JL Dutaut
Nitesh Gor and Mike Ion

Must Read

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
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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…

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David Clayton
Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

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Rebecca Maw

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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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,…

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James Handscombe
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