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Mental health

Stressed teachers can’t fight the child mental health crisis

A childhood mental health crisis is upon us, writes Brigid Wells, and having over-worked teachers on the front line…

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BRIGID WELLS

Opinion: Curriculum

Tackling racism and rape culture is curriculum work

With time and training every teacher can start tackling oppressive narratives in their classroom, writes Joy Mbakwe. And once…

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JOY MBAKWE

Opinion: Workforce

Teacher shortages won’t be solved with financial incentives

Boris Johnson’s plans to drive teachers into challenging schools with £3,000 won’t work, writes Ben Newmark. There are better…

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BEN NEWMARK

The Knowledge

Is there a better, or best, classroom layout?

How best to set up a classroom seems too complex for research to solve, but Cat Scutt finds there…

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CAT SCUTT

Remote learning

The triple jeopardy of deprivation for online learning

Pupils are back in the classroom but online learning is now part of the furniture, and that means barriers…

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REKA BUDAI

Opinion: Workforce

Retention: adult bullying must be confronted head on

Heads are completely alone in the face of intimidation from parents and their communities, writes Rachel Smith, and it’s…

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RACHEL SMITH

North-South divide, Pupil premium

Rishi Sunak must extend the pupil premium to level up our schools

Levelling up must mean tackling persistent inequalities in our school system, and the spending review offers an opportunity to…

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JOHN STEVENSON, MP

Child poverty

The Universal Credit cut is also a cut to education

The work of schools to close attainment gaps becomes all the harder with every child who falls into poverty,…

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DANIEL KEBEDE

Catch-up

Let’s stop talking about summer learning loss

Concerns about learning loss are especially current, but they may be misplaced when it comes to the summer break…

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KATE KELLY

Must Read

Opinion

Why digital transformation must be a priority for schools in 2026

AI tools to improve teaching, workloads, admin and pupil results are all here – the challenge is to implement…

Freddie Whittaker

Chris Thackray

Opinion

First 16-year-old voters are already political, but they need schools’ support

Teenagers who will vote in 2029 are forming views without the structure or understanding schools should provide

Freddie Whittaker

Katie Carr

Opinion

Forget the buzzword bingo, here’s how schools can get belonging right

Children show us belonging is simple. If we see them, hear them, know them and accept them for who…

Freddie Whittaker

Anthony Benedict

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

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

5mo

Sam Sykes

5mo

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

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