Opinion: Mental health

How to foster interest in world events – without the anxiety

As a new report shows young people are anxious about world events, Lindsay Nadin and Helen Care set out…

JL Dutaut
Lindsay Nadin and Dr Helen Care
Religious education

Religious education: A test case for humanist views

Schools have a lot of leeway over their curriculum for religious studies but a recent case means humanism simply…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
SEND review

SEND Review: Why it’s time to ditch the meritocratic myth

We must rethink troubling assumptions at the heart of the SEND green paper in order to restore dignity to…

JL Dutaut
Ben Newmark and Tom Rees
Grammar Schools

Tory leadership: A chance to tackle selection once and for all

As the candidates gear up for a televised debate, Mike Ion suggests Rishi Sunak should come out fighting for…

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion
Diversity

How did we do at diversifying your curriculum this year?

We’ve built on last year’s progress in diversifying our content, writes JL Dutaut, but there’s more to be done…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Inclusion
A study will look at the Covid legacy for Year 11 pupils.

Real inclusion starts with our schools’ workforce

Inclusion is a core educational value, write the co-leads of Eden Academy Trust’s anti-racism working party, and we can…

JL Dutaut
Simone Wright and Sophia Barton
Opinion: Sustainability

2025 is too little too late for sustainability education

The curriculum reforms on offer in response to climate change are not only unequal to the task, writes Jo…

JL Dutaut
Jo Sale
Teacher pay

Pay award: This ‘landmark’ settlement lands wide of the mark

What was meant to be a fully-funded and inflation-busting settlement has managed to be neither and please no one,…

JL Dutaut
Micon Metcalfe
National Curriculum

We must not sleepwalk into ditching the national curriculum

The schools bill threatens to make the national curriculum obsolete, writes Tim Oates, and that’s not a good thing…

JL Dutaut
Tim Oates

Must Read

Opinion

Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker
Jon Hutchinson
The Research Leader

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Our review of 550 pupil premium strategies found many schools aren’t strategic at all – which suggests leaders need…

Freddie Whittaker
Emma Dobson
Opinion

Repairs to the school-parent contract must come from the top

The situation is not irreparable, and the first small steps have already been taken towards forging a more positive…

Freddie Whittaker
Victoria Hatton

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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