Opinion

How to support teachers with cervical cancer

To mark cervical cancer prevention week, Donna Bradbury recounts her journey from diagnosis to remission, with tips to support…

JL Dutaut
DONNA BRADBURY
Disadvantage gap

How regional partnerships can begin to reverse widening gaps

The solutions to the widening attainment gap are to be found in the south-west as well as in Westminster,…

JL Dutaut
ED VAINKER AND DAN MORROW
The Knowledge

How to take part in a DEEP dive into school groups

As the EPI launches new research in school group effectiveness, Bobbie Mills explains what we need to learn, why…

JL Dutaut
Bobbie Mills
Governance

NLG reforms have left chairs of governors unsupported

National Leader of Governance reforms have left a gaping hole in the vital support available to chairs of governors,…

JL Dutaut
NEIL YATES
Disadvantage gap

We can’t support disadvantaged pupils if we can’t monitor their outcomes

Changes to free school meal eligibility make monitoring our progress on closing the disadvantaged attainment gap nearly impossible, writes…

JL Dutaut
ANUSHA GHOSH
The Knowledge

Is extending the school day a viable solution to lost learning?

Our case study reveals important caveats for ‘out-of-school time’ provision and challenges leaders to think differently about post-Covid recovery,…

JL Dutaut
CLAIRE FORBES
finance

How to take control of your finances in 2022

Budgets are stretched in unprecedented fashion, but putting value at the heart of our financial operation has been transformative,…

JL Dutaut
ANDREW MOORHOUSE
Covid

Improving air quality is for life, not just for Covid

Improving indoor air quality shouldn’t be considered a quick fix for Covid recovery but a long-term investment in healthier…

JL Dutaut
DAVID GLOVER
Inclusion

Why we need to see the children of prisoners

Unlocking the potential of these children is matter of seeing them and tackling the stigma that keeps them and…

JL Dutaut
NATASHA PORTER

Must Read

Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens
Sir Hamid Patel
Parental leave

Some schools have cracked parental leave – so why can’t everyone? 

Education leaders must take note of a parliamentary debate last week on maternity and paternity pay, says Emma Sheppard

John Dickens
Emma Sheppard
Inclusion

Ofsted says identify children previously in care. But how?

Ofsted’s new focus will ensure children previously known to social care become more visible – but schools need better…

John Dickens
Kiran Gill

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

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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