Opinion: Policy

How ministers can transition schools from competition to collaboration 

Based on six decades of school improvement, here are practical ways government can support its ambition for a more…

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
Opinion: Independent schools

How government can foster better independent-state partnerships

Our new report sets out how government can encourage more, better pooling of resources across the state and independent…

JL Dutaut
John Edward
Opinion: Careers

School leaders must embrace the updated Gatsby benchmarks

The Gatsby benchmarks are being updated after 10 years. Here’s why every leader needs to give them their full…

JL Dutaut
Nathan Thomas
Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to avoid leadership burnout

Drawing on his experience as a leadership coach, Patrick Cozier sets out some effective ways to do the job…

JL Dutaut
Patrick Cozier
Opinion: Solutions

A successful breakfast club is the first lesson of the day

Our award-winning breakfast club has been running for 16 years. Its success is down to being an integral part…

JL Dutaut
Lisa Pegman
The Knowledge

How to use feedback effectively for CPD

Feedback is crucial to ongoing professional formation, so how can we ensure it hits home?

JL Dutaut
Dr Ourania Maria Ventista and C.J. Rauch
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted already has a proven model of better inspections

Ofsted’s reforms could yet prove successful if the inspectorate is able to learn from its own best practice and…

JL Dutaut
Kerry Boffey
Opinion: Policy

Five lessons from Behaviour Hubs – and why Labour should keep them

The Behaviour Hubs programme has highlighted best practice and provided a model for effectively meeting our biggest challenges

JL Dutaut
Sam Strickland
Opinion: Politics

Can education learn to stop worrying and love collaboration?

Bridget Phillipson’s emerging vision marks an end to competition as the primary driver of school improvement – but is…

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

JL Dutaut
Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

JL Dutaut
Andrew O’Neill
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but…

JL Dutaut
Matt Hood

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

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
Exams
The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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