Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s framework is failing first and infant schools

The only conclusion from the downgrading of so many infant and first schools is that Ofsted’s framework is unfit…

JL Dutaut
David Scott
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Our scramble for youth is missing the talent

Changes in population and the labour market mean the government’s scramble for young recruits is no longer a workable…

JL Dutaut
Katie Waldegrave
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Our commissioning editor delves into an EEF report that has reignited the reading wars and left teachers none the…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Oak National Academy

Independence is just the start of the new Oak’s problems

Plans to re-launch Oak National as an independent body are already running into legal challenges, and could be mired…

JL Dutaut
Martyn Davis
PSHE, safeguarding

Supporting schools to tackle and prevent gambling harms

A new framework is designed to help teachers and leaders approach the growing concern of gambling harms with confidence,…

JL Dutaut
Dr Jane Rigbye
Opinion: Mental health

Schools need more support for students’ mental health

On World Mental Health Day, Allie Denholm says there’s a lot schools can do to support pupils with increasing…

JL Dutaut
Allie Denholm
The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

School leaders’ changing approaches to recruitment and retention, effective CPD, and the impact of the cost of living on…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Opinion: SEND
Three more councils have been slammed by inspectors over systemic SEND failings

SEND: Why we’re going beyond inclusion to belonging

With the SEND review in the balance, Marios Solomonides explains why his trust is taking matters into its own…

JL Dutaut
Marios Solomonides
NTP

NTP: Better, faster evaluation data is now urgent

An absence of positive and compelling evidence is putting the tutoring programme at risk, writes Adam Alagiah-Glomseth

JL Dutaut
Adam Alagiah-Glomseth

Must Read

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

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut
Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

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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