The Knowledge

How can we improve access to quality work experience?

New research reveals stark inequalities in access to work experience and success factors for closing the gap, explain Elnaz…

JL Dutaut
Elnaz Kashef and Will Millard
STEM

Four ways to tackle inequalities in science

Monique Darrell sets out her top tips for overcoming persistent barriers that hold certain groups back from success in…

JL Dutaut
Monique Darrell
Opinion: Sustainability

Sustainability: Cutting red meat will make schools greener

Saving the planet may feel like one job too many but cutting red meat from meals could have a…

JL Dutaut
Thomas Martell
ChatGPT

ChatGPT: How to guard against AI-generated essays

We should worry less about students using AI to cheat the system and more about a system that can…

JL Dutaut
Yvonne Williams
Social mobility

Why I’m leaving the social mobility commission

It’s been a successful year and I leave the team in great shape – but my presence is only…

JL Dutaut
Katharine Birbalsingh
Numeracy

Maths to 18 for all means rethinking maths altogether

The PM’s maths proposal has rightly been met with cynicism but it does present an opportunity to rethink our…

JL Dutaut
Mark Boylan
Community

School networks are vital to community safety

Schools can’t provide everything children and families need to meet this crisis – but they can act as vital…

JL Dutaut
Christine Stansfield
Opinion

To parents, thriving children are more important than the academies debate

‘Most of the parents we spoke to were not only uninterested, but frankly unaware of what academisation means’

Freddie Whittaker
Meg Price
Mental health

Mental health: How schools are mitigating poverty

Schools are increasingly mitigating the effects of poverty to safeguard children’s wellbeing and learning, writes Kate Richardson

JL Dutaut
Kate Richardson

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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