Opinion

The policy of MAT expansion needs careful scrutiny

If successive ministers can’t even agree on how to define a large MAT, there should definitely be more debate…

JL Dutaut
EMMA KNIGHTS
Opinion

Teaching School Hubs ensure the recovery will be school-led

It’s a change that has garnered little attention, but the new Teaching School Hubs could transform the way we…

JL Dutaut
MATT DAVIS
The Knowledge

Research: Is a return to normality what Year 6 pupils need?

New research reveals that potentially damaging ‘dividing practices’ are a normal consequence of the pressure of SATs, writes Alice…

JL Dutaut
ALICE BRADBURY
Opinion

How to ease the transition back to school for young carers

As schools reopen, young carers’ needs and concerns remain high. Feylyn Lewis sets out ways schools can support them…

JL Dutaut
DR FEYLYN LEWIS
Opinion

Lockdown lessons: Schools deserve better than back to normal

Announcements and noises off don’t inspire confidence that ministers have learned the lessons of lockdown, writes Kate Chhatwal A…

JL Dutaut
KATE CHHATWAL
Opinion

Catch-up? It’s all ambition and no imagination

If the ambition is for the next few months to be transformative, asks Alan Garnett, why do they look…

JL Dutaut
ALAN GARNETT
Opinion
catch-up

Will shorter summer holidays become a 2021 reality?

The legal powers and precedent make shorter summer holidays a possibility. The question for ministers and schools alike is…

JL Dutaut
ESTHER MAXWELL
Opinion

How the NTP is solving the northern tutoring challenge

Disparities in accessing the National Tutoring Programme mirror existing inequalities, writes Emily Yeomans. But we are already beginning to…

JL Dutaut
EMILY YEOMANS
The Knowledge

Research: How masks in class went from unimaginable to mainstream

As children returned to school this week, masks have been more in use than ever. Teacher Tapp’s Eve Debbage…

JL Dutaut
EVE DEBBAGE

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Opinion: Policy

Labour’s bill could tie schools to inequity through uniform

The government’s well-intentioned policy on school uniform could be undermined by failing to grasp its broader interplay with inclusion

JL Dutaut
Caroline Barlow and Tess Howard
Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill’s foreseeable consequences – and its…

JL Dutaut
Meg Powell-Chandler
Opinion: Solutions
mental health

How to mitigate disadvantage in the classroom

We must get under the bonnet of disadvantage as it applies to individuals to have any chance of mitigating…

JL Dutaut
Finola Wilson

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

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
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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