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Making the vulnerable visible is how we will close gaps

Policy makers are able to really see vulnerable students for the first time, but will they choose to look?…

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Harry Quilter-Pinner* and Kiran Gill**

Covid

Covid adaptations have actually improved some aspects of school life

It’s not very new any more – and it certainly isn’t normal yet – but the adapted school day…

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TIM ROACH

Exams

Few certainties, but exams are fairest and should go ahead

Schools can be confident that Ofqual and exam boards have the tools to make summer 2021 exams fair, writes…

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DAME GLENYS STACEY

Opinion

How can school-charity partnerships help tackle lost learning?

With the national tutoring programme set to launch soon, a roundtable from earlier this year offers useful insights on…

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ALIX ROBERTSON* and SUSANNAH HARDYMAN**

Sexual abuse

Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic

Two out of 27. How government is failing the inclusion test

The government has only implemented two of 27 recommendations from the Timpson review of school exclusion. Cath Murray offers suggestions for how…

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CATH MURRAY

Opinion

Special schools show how much the system’s resilience is being tested

We’re in it for the long haul but special schools are the canary in the coal mine of the…

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MADELAINE CAPLIN

Opinion

Covid: We need data on learning loss and we need it fast

Summer exams will come too late to start learning useful lessons from Covid but we don’t have to wait…

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NATALIE PERERA* AND JOHN MOORE**

Opinion

Too many factors outside of heads’ control are causing anxieties to rise

Trying to earn the trust of communities while feeling untrusted by government is a recipe of sleepless nights, writes…

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ALISON PEACOCK

Opinion

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

Covid presents teacher recruitment gains but challenges lie ahead

The Covid recession presents teacher recruitment with short-term gains but now is not the time to ease off the…

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JACK WORTH

Must Read

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

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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

Opinion: Governance

How we’re bucking the trend and recruiting great governors

Amid a national shortage of governors, here’s how our group has had success in recruiting and retaining professionals who…

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Jenny Pharo

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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