Baker Clause

The Baker Clause requires a carrot as well as a stick

Legal enforcement of the Baker Clause is long overdue and will benefit all pupils, writes Simon Connell, but it…

JL Dutaut
Simon Connell
Academies, Politics

We’ve heard schools bill fears, but our end goal is unchanged

Minister insists she doesn’t want to ‘micro-manage academies’, but new intervention powers are necessary

Freddie Whittaker
Baroness Barran
School Leadership

Six key principles for successfully onboarding new leaders

Now is the time to ensure all your new ingredients for success are combining successfully to bake in next…

JL Dutaut
Tom Campbell


Opinion: Workforce

A looming middle leadership crisis must be averted

Some achieve middle leadership and some have it thrust upon them, but too few are thriving in their ill-defined…

JL Dutaut
Sinead McBrearty and Dan Morrow
Assessment

We need a broad and balanced assessment system too

Digital technologies can improve the assessment of educational outcomes, writes Rachel Macfarlane, but we must go further than simply…

JL Dutaut
Rachel Macfarlane
Opinion: Curriculum

Diversifying curriculum is everyone’s job now, not in 2024

The DfE’s planned model history curriculum is a welcome response to issues of racial representation, writes Abid Butt, but…

JL Dutaut
Abid Butt
The Knowledge

How can we judge the impact of coaching in schools?

For all the buzz about coaching, until now there has been little by way of measuring its effects in…

JL Dutaut
Rachel Lofthouse
Edtech

Schools face a financial tsunami and another edtech revolution

An ill-conceived Covid response has left schools financially exposed and unprepared to adapt to technological advances, writes Richard Taylor

JL Dutaut
Richard Taylor
Edtech

From Netflix for CPD to supporting organisational change

From internal communication tool to a Netflix for CPD, our OpenSource now promises to support leaders across the sector…

JL Dutaut
Luke Sparkes

Must Read

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
The Curriculum Conversation

How the Francis review can solve England’s languages crisis

Arresting the decline and growing disparities in language uptake is within the grasp of the curriculum and assessment review….

JL Dutaut
Juliette Claro
Opinion: Academy trusts

How small trusts can drive a new era of sustained improvement

Labour have caused a slow-down in trust expansion, but small MATs can turn this into an opportunity to grow…

JL Dutaut
Mark Greatrex

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

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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