Opinion
Catering firm Compass, whose subsidiary Chartwells was at the centre of the free school meal parcel fiasco, is set to repay taxpayers' furlough cash.

We can’t put the school food genie back in the bottle

The pandemic has revealed systemic issues with the quality and accessibility of school food and our new working group…

JL Dutaut
NICK CAPSTICK
ITT

ITT review: Does government want a market or a monopoly?

The government have reviewed the ITT market and evidently decided a market is not what they want after all,…

JL Dutaut
IAN MEARNS MP
Covid

How we’ll build on the relationships forged in Covid adversity

As the Cabinet Office’s National Leadership Centre launches its 2021 report, Stephen Crookbain and Leora Cruddas explain its part…

JL Dutaut
STEPHEN CROOKBAIN* and LEORA CRUDDAS**
Opinion

Great professional development for all teachers? It’s more affordable than you think

How much would it cost to give teachers a formal entitlement to continuing professional development? Not as much as…

Freddie Whittaker
JAMES ZUCCOLLO
Opinion

Three new insights about early learning and child wellbeing

Deprivation affects learning, but the good news for teachers is that other factors within their control can have an…

JL Dutaut
RACHEL CLASSICK
Opinion

Are we showing the profession all that it can be?

Every year, we audit our back pages to hold ourselves accountable for representing the teaching profession at its diverse…

JL Dutaut
JL DUTAUT
Opinion

This new academies handbook could cause waste and confusion

Poor consultation on the new Academy Trust Handbook reflects badly on the DfE and could create unnecessary and preventable…

JL Dutaut
STEPHEN MORALES* and STEPHEN LESTER**
The Knowledge

Five research insights that shone a light on 2020/21

JL Dutaut selects five contributions to our regular research column that have informed and elightened our year   Are…

JL Dutaut
JL DUTAUT
ITT

ITT review: Histrionics can’t block an historic opportunity

The reaction to the ITT review is completely out of kilter with its proposals, writes Stuart Lock, and improving…

JL Dutaut
STUART LOCK

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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

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

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

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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