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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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Exams
BTECs

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
summer schools

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
Opinion

What does good online teaching and learning look like?

Jon Eaton reflects on an early foray into online learning and how EEF research helped him learn lessons fast…

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JON EATON

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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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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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