Opinion

It’s time to rethink our monochrome remembrance school traditions

We seem to be reaching ‘peak red poppy’, writes Will Yates, and diversifying our symbolism could be key to…

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WILL YATES
The Knowledge

How can we make best use of the pupil premium for recovery?

Professor Becky Francis sets out the benefits of using the EEF’s updated guide to target pupil premium spending and…

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BECKY FRANCIS
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are key to unlocking our science superpower

Schools must value and recommend apprenticeships if we are ever to become a ‘science superpower’, writes Jo Foster

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JO FOSTER
Opinion

How to manage reputational risk in a digital era

As more schools are forced to deal with online criticism, Emma Yates and Peter Davenport set out how to…

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EMMA YATES AND PETER DAVENPORT
Opinion: Accountability

The error in claiming an Ofsted ‘reign of terror’

These challenging times are not a reason to fear inspectors but an opportunity to seek their validation of our…

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MOHSEN OJJA
Climate change

The education for sustainability teachers and students really want

Teachers and young people want their schools to be leaders in sustainability, write Lynda Dunlop and Elizabeth Rushton, and…

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LYNDA DUNLOP AND ELIZABETH RUSHTON
Climate change

How to tackle climate uncertainty without the anxiety

It’s possible to teach climate change without adding to student anxieties, teacher workload or accountability stakes, write Rebecca Webb…

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REBECCA WEBB AND PERPETUA KIRBY
Covid

Year 8 writing recovery shows it may be time to talk about learning decay, not loss

Last year we found year 7s were 22 months behind in writing. Now they appear to be bouncing back

Freddie Whittaker
DAISY CHRISTODOULOU
Opinion: Accountability

Two years on, how has Ofsted’s inspection framework fared?

Its first two years have been marked by unprecedented disruption, write Jeffery Quaye and Mary Myatt, but the 2019…

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DR JEFFERY QUAYE and MARY MYATT

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

How we’ve boosted social mobility in our deprived area

Here’s how we went from persistently low outcomes to the most improved school in the country for disadvantaged students

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Steve Rogers
Opinion: Governance

Local governance is key to community cohesion

This volunteers’ week, let’s pledge to better support our governors as the community champions they are in these times…

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Emma Balchin
Opinion: Governance

How we’re bucking the trend and recruiting great governors

Amid a national shortage of governors, here’s how our group has had success in recruiting and retaining professionals who…

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Jenny Pharo

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,…

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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

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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,…

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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…

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Stephen Caldwell
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