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Schools Bill

Why schools shouldn’t lose time preparing for academy trusts

The process of creating and joining MATs is complex and the 2030 target is likely to stay – so…

JL Dutaut

Gemma Duxbury

Tutoring

The NTP has been a nightmare – but its aims still matter

After two years of changing the programme for the better from the inside, we will be going our own…

Samantha Booth

Tim Coulson

The Legal Leader

New exclusions guidance: Practical implications for schools

The DfE’s new exclusions guidance represents a substantial change in accountability for leaders and governors, explain two school legal…

JL Dutaut

Theresa Kerr and Tracey Eldridge-Hinmers

safeguarding

After Andrew Tate: How to confront online harms head-on

Andrew Tate may be banned from social media but misogyny still proliferates, writes Zahara Chowdhury, and we must do…

JL Dutaut

Zahara Chowdhury

The Knowledge

The Knowledge: This week’s research highlights

Young people’s access to nature, teaching big ideas in primary, the impact of noise, changing behaviours, and girls in…

JL Dutaut

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

Must Read

Opinion

We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

Freddie Whittaker

22mins

Dr Herminder Channa

22mins

Opinion

Why digital transformation must be a priority for schools in 2026

AI tools to improve teaching, workloads, admin and pupil results are all here – the challenge is to implement…

Freddie Whittaker

Chris Thackray

Opinion

First 16-year-old voters are already political, but they need schools’ support

Teenagers who will vote in 2029 are forming views without the structure or understanding schools should provide

Freddie Whittaker

Katie Carr

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

5mo

Sam Sykes

5mo

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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