Opinion: Curriculum

Teachers can’t increase diversity alone. Exam boards have a role to play too

Increasing diversity across the curriculum is about far more than making more texts available, writes Katy Lewis. It requires…

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KATY LEWIS
Opinion

Curriculum vs conspiracy. Tackling disinformation in the classroom

Ellie Fishleigh explores how to prepare for and what to do when the online world of misinformation and conspiracy…

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ELLIE FISHLEIGH
Opinion
school uniform bill

Don’t demonise the school uniform shop

As the Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill makes its way through parliament, with its report stage…

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ANDREW LEWER
Opinion

Understanding the vocabulary gap at primary-to-secondary transition

Following publication of their new report, two academics explore what we know – and what we don’t –  about…

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JESSIE RICKETTS* AND LAURA SHAPIRO**
Opinion

Shift happens. Lessons from online professional development

Tom Rees sets out four crucial lessons from Ambition Institute’s transition to online CPD The last time we worked…

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TOM REES
Covid

What are the consequences of Covid for school leaders and teachers?

NFER research director, Caroline Sharp draws six key lessons from schools’ response to the pandemic so far In May…

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CAROLINE SHARP
Opinion

Unlike government, education can talk its way out of a crisis

Oracy plays a crucial role in supporting children to get back into learning, articulate their worries and build relationships,…

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Emma Hardy
Opinion

Those who can’t afford it can’t teach

Amelia Hepburn was left bereft by last-minute cuts to bursaries that mean only those who can afford it can…

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Amelia Hepburn
Opinion

Avoiding tough choices on exam grades won’t help anyone

There’s only really one way forward if we don’t want this year’s grades to become meaningless, writes James Handscombe…

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JAMES HANDSCOMBE

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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…

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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…

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Finola Wilson
Opinion: Workforce

The sector has taken another big step in parent-teacher support

Developments at the National Education Union’s conference give hope that we may soon stem the flow of parents out…

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Emma Sheppard

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,…

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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
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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,…

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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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