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Your money or your data! Counting the costs of ransomware

A spike in ransomware attacks on schools should be spurring leaders – and the Department for Education – to…

JL Dutaut

HAYLEY DUNN

Opinion

Recovery can’t be achieved with sparsely spread resources

New Teach First research reveals stark disparities. Our manifesto aims to put them right by giving teachers the resources…

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RUSSELL HOBBY

Opinion

The DfE must show it is inclined to learn from its mistakes

The DfE has been challenged like few others by the pandemic, writes Meg Hillier, but its disinclination to learn…

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Meg Hillier MP

Opinion

The progress gap can’t be closed. So what now?

The data is clear: The progress gap won’t close in our current system and using our current tools. But…

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SAMMY WRIGHT

Opinion

How to ensure looked-after children get a look in on the NTP

The first wave of NTP had to make in-flight changes to accommodate looked-after children. The second wave must pre-empt…

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SIMON BARNES

The Knowledge

Research: Who benefits from inclusion?

New research suggests the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs has positive effects that could be further improved…

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Rob Webster

Covid

Collaboration between trusts can win the Covid recovery

The post-Covid recovery calls for collaboration over competition and our MAT-to-MAT peer review pilot shows what can be achieved,…

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HELEN ROWLAND* and ANDY YARROW**

Opinion

Schools with identified RAAC are being urged to put contingency plans in place in case of closure by the DfE

A charter won’t fix the teacher wellbeing crisis

The DfE’s new initiative is welcome, writes Mary Bousted, but this charter can’t be used to paper over the…

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MARY BOUSTED

Education Reform

The journey through recovery must lead to reform 

Covid has created new challenges, but it has also highlighted existing ones. Eventually, we must tackle them all, writes…

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SIR ALAN WOOD CBE

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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

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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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Jenny Pharo

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

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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