Edtech

A digital strategy is necessary and achievable for every school

Leaders with a credible digital strategy are pushing at an open door to school improvement, and support is there…

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DOMINIC NORRISH
The Knowledge

How can we secure the spirit of Covid collaboration for the future?

A Manchester initiative is showing how school-to-school collaborations are best placed to create the conditions for improvement, write Mel…

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Exams

Exams: GCSE reform isn’t as simple as stick or twist

As clamour grows for post-Covid GCSE reform, it’s important we listen to the opinions of all those concerned, writes…

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COLIN HUGHES
Spending review 2021

The spending review must fix the boat, not rely on liferafts

The spending review can only deliver a sustainable recovery and future prosperity if it is focused on children and…

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CAROLE WILLIS
Opinion

Ministers’ response to poor white pupils inquiry is a waste of paper

The government’s response to the education select committee’s report into the educational underachievement of white pupils on free school…

John Dickens
KIM JOHNSON MP
Opinion: Workforce

Our recruitment woes can only be solved with ethical leadership

We can’t expect to solve recruitment challenges if we don’t accept our system only allows us to pass the…

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ROBIN BEVAN
The Knowledge

How has the pandemic impacted special schools?

Our research shows that special schools were the hardest hit and leaders have little faith their plight is understood,…

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CAROLINE SHARP and AMY SKIPP
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s maths research review could lead to poorer teaching

School leaders and teachers for tips to improve maths teaching would do better to follow the national curriculum’s principles,…

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ANNE WATSON AND JENNI BACK
Mental health

Stressed teachers can’t fight the child mental health crisis

A childhood mental health crisis is upon us, writes Brigid Wells, and having over-worked teachers on the front line…

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BRIGID WELLS

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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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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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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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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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