The Knowledge

Do ‘ghost children’ exist and what can we do about them?

The phrase has quickly developed a life of its own in the media, but who are the ghost children…

JL Dutaut
GEMMA MOSS
Academies

It’s not for us to question Catholic school academy conversions 

Calls on the Catholic Education Service to ‘step in’ on controversial academy conversions show a secular misunderstanding of our…

JL Dutaut
PAUL BARBER
Inclusion

Measuring inclusion? Beware the unintended consequences

A new consultation proposes to drive inclusion through measuring attendance and exclusions but the cure could be worse than…

JL Dutaut
SARAH JOHNSON
Sexual abuse

A whole-system response to harmful sexual behaviours

Teachers are vital in our fight against an epidemic of harmful sexual behaviour, writes the safeguarding minister, and they…

JL Dutaut
RACHEL MACLEAN, MP
Exams
BTECs

Our exam mitigations have fairness at their heart

Some will question our decisions on mitigations and grade boundaries, writes Jo Saxton, but they are proportionate and focused…

JL Dutaut
JO SAXTON
Opinion

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

The government’s new policies will allow every child to benefit from education, no matter where they live, says Robin…

Freddie Whittaker
Robin Walker
Edtech
Ofsted special school

How an edtech audit transformed our provision

Free, genuine peer-to-peer advice that takes us as it finds us and leads to truly impactful change? Yes, please,…

JL Dutaut
MICHELLE SHAW
The Knowledge

How can schools begin to face up to systemic racism?

The White Spaces project highlights the challenges of unpicking systemic racism, but shows that doing so is within schools’…

JL Dutaut
DR SHONA HUNTER
Physical education

Why we scrapped PE for a healthier curriculum

Physical education is supposed to instil healthy habits for life in all our young people and it is fundamentally…

JL Dutaut
GARETH EVANS

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This week’s best responses from our readers

Another way for school readiness, why phone bans ARE the brave choice and enrichment’s GCSE blinkers problem

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Opinion: school funding

5 helpful ways ministers can support schools to cut costs

With this week’s budget expected to offer little for squeezed schools, one trust leader outlines suggestions for ministers to…

John Dickens
Keziah Featherstone
School structures

Why the MAT debate misses the real opportunity

School-led partnerships offer the benefits of trusts without the restructuring, and work for schools that want to collaborate but…

John Dickens
Stephen Hall

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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