Opinion | Schools Week

Design and technology

Low take-up of design and technology threatens the government’s ambitions

Government ambitions to stimulate technology, engineering and manufacturing could be threatened by dwindling take-up of relevant subjects, writes Sam…

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Sam Tuckett

key stage 4

Are KS4 performance statistics still doing their job?

The office for statistics regulation is reviewing the use of KS4 performance stats and you can be part of…

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Emily Carless and Nicky Pearce

Edtech

Let’s learn from Estonia and say goodbye to the old normal

Instead of romanticising our education system, we would better serve teachers and pupils by following the example of new…

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Emma Slater

Edtech

We can and must do better to scale up innovations

There is a thriving market of start-ups offering educational solutions, writes David Jaffa, but a fragmented system means schools…

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David Jaffa

Alternative provision

PRUs prevent criminality – so let’s look beyond the tropes

New research disproves the damaging tropes about alternative provision’s link to crime, writes Steve Howell, so let’s ditch them…

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STEVE HOWELL

Schools white paper

White paper: beware the unintended consequences

Policy makers looking to secure an all-academy system risk putting a jet engine on a bicycle – with predictable…

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Hugh Greenway

The Knowledge

How can we improve attendance in the wake of Covid?

New EEF research offers some best bets for getting children back in the classroom and keeping them there after…

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Kirsten Mould

Schools white paper

White paper: the all-MAT system needs governance buy-in

Governors and trustees still have valid reservations about large MATs, writes Emma Knights, and the white paper must account…

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Emma Knights

Oracy

The schools white paper must have oracy at its heart

We are now one year on from schools returning in full after the Covid lockdowns. But we are yet…

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Emma Hardy and Geraint Davies

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

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Rebecca Maw

Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

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Cllr Zena Brabazon

Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

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Poppy Nobes

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

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

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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

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