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Exams

Exams: Stick or twist, we need quick decisions from the new DfE

It is right to return to pre-Covid grade boundaries as soon as possible, writes Geraint Jones, but we now…

JL Dutaut

Professor Geraint Jones

Childcare

PM Truss could spell revolution for school-based childcare

If it’s a priority for the new PM and the opposition, it’s likely schools will have to wrap their…

JL Dutaut

Ed Reza Schwitzer

National Curriculum

Why we’re abandoning Oak – and the new DfE should too

What started as a charitable and collaborative venture has become a vehicle for creating a government-approved curriculum, writes Jon…

JL Dutaut

Sir Jon Coles

Politics

Who’d be an education special adviser now?

Crisis, time pressures and political self-harm could leave the new DfE team lacking the expertise it needs to deliver,…

JL Dutaut

Angus Walker

Assessment

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t…

JL Dutaut

Jo Saxton

Social mobility

Social mobility: Pursuit of privilege hampers our progress

There are more important divisions to heal in and through state education than the top tier’s upward mobility into…

JL Dutaut

Mike Ion

Exams, The Knowledge

GCSE results: A national shame that requires radical change

Our new research shows the unfolding tragedy of educational disadvantage, writes Lee Elliot Major, and it’s a scandal that…

JL Dutaut

Lee Elliot Major

Exams

English and maths resits are crucial – but fewer should need them

A low pass rate for English and maths GCSEs – especially among disadvantaged pupils – is not an argument…

JL Dutaut

Steve Haines

Attainment gap

Schools can close gaps – but they can’t fix inequality

It’s time to stop asking what schools can do for society and start asking what society can do for…

JL Dutaut

Russell Hobby

Must Read

Opinion

Why we’ve got ‘stuck’ schools all wrong

Stuck schools often get a ‘hero’ leader, but there are much better solutions, argues Seamus Murphy

Freddie Whittaker

Seamus Murphy

Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens

Sir Hamid Patel

Parental leave

Some schools have cracked parental leave – so why can’t everyone?

Education leaders must take note of a parliamentary debate last week on maternity and paternity pay, says Emma Sheppard

John Dickens

Emma Sheppard

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

3mo

Sam Sykes

3mo

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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