Opinion: Workforce

A looming middle leadership crisis must be averted

Some achieve middle leadership and some have it thrust upon them, but too few are thriving in their ill-defined…

JL Dutaut
Sinead McBrearty and Dan Morrow
Assessment

We need a broad and balanced assessment system too

Digital technologies can improve the assessment of educational outcomes, writes Rachel Macfarlane, but we must go further than simply…

JL Dutaut
Rachel Macfarlane
Opinion: Curriculum

Diversifying curriculum is everyone’s job now, not in 2024

The DfE’s planned model history curriculum is a welcome response to issues of racial representation, writes Abid Butt, but…

JL Dutaut
Abid Butt
The Knowledge

How can we judge the impact of coaching in schools?

For all the buzz about coaching, until now there has been little by way of measuring its effects in…

JL Dutaut
Rachel Lofthouse
Edtech

Schools face a financial tsunami and another edtech revolution

An ill-conceived Covid response has left schools financially exposed and unprepared to adapt to technological advances, writes Richard Taylor

JL Dutaut
Richard Taylor
Edtech

From Netflix for CPD to supporting organisational change

From internal communication tool to a Netflix for CPD, our OpenSource now promises to support leaders across the sector…

JL Dutaut
Luke Sparkes
Social mobility

Social mobility: Why Birbalsingh is right and what to do about it

Social mobility policy is often focused on rags-to-riches stories, says Loic Menzies, but there’s plenty ministers can do to…

JL Dutaut
Loic Menzies
Professional development

Why does the system need a National Institute of Teaching?

From cold spots to gaps in research, Sir Dan Moynihan sets out the reasons the school-led training provider came…

JL Dutaut
Sir Dan Moynihan
Worforce

The seven stages of losing your work buddy

Teachers everywhere are feeling a sense of loss as a valued colleague’s departure looms, so Gavin Simpson and Natasha…

JL Dutaut
Gavin Simpson and Natasha Lawrence

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

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

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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