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Teacher pay

Pay award: This ‘landmark’ settlement lands wide of the mark

What was meant to be a fully-funded and inflation-busting settlement has managed to be neither and please no one,…

JL Dutaut

Micon Metcalfe

National Curriculum

We must not sleepwalk into ditching the national curriculum

The schools bill threatens to make the national curriculum obsolete, writes Tim Oates, and that’s not a good thing…

JL Dutaut

Tim Oates

Teacher pay

This pay award confirms my decision to leave

This ‘best and fairest pay deal’ is a timely reminder of why I decided to leave, writes Will Yates….

JL Dutaut

William Yates

Opinion

‘We got teachers the best and fairest pay deal we possibly could’

The education secretary writes about next year’s pay deal, and his ‘admiration’ for teachers

Freddie Whittaker

James Cleverly

Opinion: Sustainability

Heatwave: Keeping cool is a concern for the future too

There is little schools can do to mitigate extreme weather without investment to make the estate more resilient, efficient…

JL Dutaut

Steven Reynolds

The Knowledge

Five research insights that got us thinking in 2021/22

The last word of every Schools Week edition is often the first you’ll hear of new educational research that…

JL Dutaut

Funding

Most schools have taken at least one measure to reduce spending in the last year, a new survey shows

Falling pupil numbers require an urgent policy response

The Department for Education have just published their latest pupil projections for the next decade. These predict that there…

JL Dutaut

Jenna Julius

Opinion: Mental health

Mental health first aid is as important as physical first aid

St John Ambulance led the campaign to put physical first aid on the curriculum, writes one Year 13 volunteer,…

JL Dutaut

Rebecca Edwards

Sexual abuse

Creating an RSHE curriculum fit for today’s challenges

Events prompted us to revisit not just our curriculum but our entire approach to relationships education, writes Caroline Barlow,…

JL Dutaut

Caroline Barlow

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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