Opinion | Schools Week

Covid

The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

How to ensure trainee teachers don’t miss out due to Covid

Rising numbers of applicants are welcome but how to support them in this challenging environment is a question on…

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PAUL THORNTON

Opinion

The 11 Plus can be accurate or fair, but not both

After a century of the selective entrance test, it’s time to call game, set and match, writes Sam Sims…

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DR SAM SIMS

Exams

Ignoring pressure to cancel exams was the right call

There might be a debate to be had about assessment but cancelling exams now would have done more harm…

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ANNE HEAVEY

Covid

To get through Covid, we need more CPD, not less

More agile CPD is key to ensuring Covid’s legacy doesn’t become an injustice for the profession, writes Nicola Podd…

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NICOLA PODD

Opinion

Vulnerable students need more than a quick-fix catch-up

With the National Tutoring Programme about to get under way, one primary leader says schools need to use catch-up…

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PETE BLOOMFIELD

Opinion

How can we help students to commit to action – then act on their commitment?

New research suggests a relatively simple technique could have teachers WOOPing at their students’ achievements, says Harry Fletcher-Wood We…

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HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

Opinion

Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic but exclusions still falling

Exasperation has driven me to retire early

The heart attack didn’t cause me to give up leadership, writes Robert Campbell. Losing heart did I never intended…

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ROBERT CAMPBELL

News, Opinion

Prioritising well-being doesn’t make you a ‘snowflake’

Amid daily guidelines and Daily Mail headlines, we can’t lose sight of what it takes to run happy and…

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JAMES KIBBLE

Opinion

Grammar schools can and do tackle social mobility

Funding for expansion is exactly how grammar schools like ours will deliver on our social mobility promise, writes Gary…

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GARY HICKEY

Must Read

Opinion: SEND

How we can ensure our schools cater for all our kids

Two actions would begin to transform the school experiences of children with dyslexia and other neurodivergences – and it’s…

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11mins

Jamie Oliver

11mins

Opinion: Policy

How we’ve boosted social mobility in our deprived area

Here’s how we went from persistently low outcomes to the most improved school in the country for disadvantaged students

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Steve Rogers

Opinion: Governance

Local governance is key to community cohesion

This volunteers’ week, let’s pledge to better support our governors as the community champions they are in these times…

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Emma Balchin

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

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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