STEM

Girls in STEM: A message for your students

After marking International Women’s Day, schools can keep pushing the message that girls’ STEM career potential is unlimited, writes…

JL Dutaut
Sally Williams
Edtech

Video tech has turned our lesson observation on its head

Video recording of lessons has reduced fear of the dreaded observation and brought our focus on the small details…

JL Dutaut
David Chapman
Budget 2023

Budget: A starved system can’t end persistent absence

This week’s budget must recognise that our system for preventing absence is failing and leaving schools with an impossible…

JL Dutaut
Jaine Stannard
The Knowledge

Universal Credit will make closing the disadvantage gap harder

NFER research shows transtional plans for the roll-out of Universal Credit will make the disadvantage gap harder to track,…

JL Dutaut
Jenna Julius
Opinion: Solutions

How to organise a conference in the age of online learning

The recent Ark Curriculum Plus event demonstrated exactly what the CPD conference still has to offer in the post-Covid…

JL Dutaut
Caroline Doherty
Politics

We’ve become an insular profession weakened by narrow debate

The teaching profession is progressively narrowing its focus from the big picture to technical minutiae, says Adam Seldon, and…

JL Dutaut
Adam Seldon
Opinion

Ministers are trying to undermine teacher strikes. Their behaviour is counterproductive

The education secretary should be negotiating with unions in a serious and ongoing way, writes Kevin Courtney

Kevin Courtney
Kevin Courtney
Politics

Schools can’t tackle ‘wokeness’ jibes by dismissing them

‘Wokeness’ is used to dismiss important work done in schools, but understanding its sources is the only way to…

JL Dutaut
Bilkis Miah
Teacher strikes

Pausing strikes for pay talks is in best interests of teachers and pupils

Writing exclusively for Schools Week, education secretary Gillian Keegan urged the NEU to follow the lead of health unions…

John Dickens
Gillian Keegan

Must Read

Opinion

Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker
Jon Hutchinson
The Research Leader

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Our review of 550 pupil premium strategies found many schools aren’t strategic at all – which suggests leaders need…

Freddie Whittaker
Emma Dobson
Opinion

Repairs to the school-parent contract must come from the top

The situation is not irreparable, and the first small steps have already been taken towards forging a more positive…

Freddie Whittaker
Victoria Hatton

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

JL Dutaut
David Spendlove
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EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

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

John Dickens
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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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