Opinion: Funding

SEND funding must align with the government’s inclusive vision

Our reactive, deficit model of need is matched by our reactive funding model and budget deficits. Both need to…

JL Dutaut
Benedicte Yue and Dr Peter Gray
The Research Leader

Understanding and tackling violence against girls in schools

New research shows the worrying extent of violence against girls in and out of school and points to ways…

JL Dutaut
Dr Lauren Sullivan
The Boardroom Leader

Boards must step up to the growing challenge of SEND – here’s how

Here’s how our trust has put SEND at the heart of its boardroom decision-making and it’s having a transformative…

JL Dutaut
Charlotte Harding
Opinion: Accountability

We have to define ‘high stakes’ if we hope to lower them

If we want to dismantle the causes of school leaders’ wellbeing and mental health issues, we must start by…

JL Dutaut
Sinéad Mc Brearty
Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

A monstrous admission, a deafening silence, a dangerous manifesto and a turn of the tables

JL Dutaut
Various
The Conspiracy Commission

Teachers can combat conspiracy theories – but they need help

The work of our commission shows that teachers are clamouring for support in countering misinformation. Here’s how we get…

JL Dutaut
Gareth Conyard
Opinion: Accountability

Inclusion is now the leadership test. Here’s how to pass

Achieve, belong and thrive are no longer soft concepts to be thrown around. Inspectors will soon expect to see…

JL Dutaut
Dr Nicole Ponsford
Opinion: SEND

Labour must now fund the consensus view on SEND solutions

From consensus about a crisis, this week’s report takes us to a consensus about how to fix it. The…

JL Dutaut
Daniel Kebede
Opinion: Accountability

We need to deliver Ofsted in real time – here’s how

The real opportunity of inspection reform is in embracing what technology now allows and unleashing a live system of…

JL Dutaut
Alexander Iosad

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Social mobility can be harmful if it means ditching your roots

Schools need to replace deficit-based narratives with approaches that celebrate belonging, dignity and identity affirmation, says Danielle Lewis-Egonu

Freddie Whittaker
Danielle Lewis-Egnou
The Business Leader

The school business leader role has evolved, but do policymakers know?

Today’s practitioners lead across finance, estates, people, digital systems, governance and organisational improvement. The language we use has not…

Freddie Whittaker
Stephen Morales
Opinion

Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos

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

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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