Opinion

Post COVID-19, we need a school system built on trust

Schools will reopen to a new world. They have earned the nation’s trust and should be supported to shape…

JL Dutaut
MIKE ION
Opinion

This curious revolution avoids conflict and sidesteps inequality

The second episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning Revolution for BBC Radio 4 falls short of asking the big…

JL Dutaut
MELISSA BENN
Opinion
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Could lockdown be boosting teacher supply?

Amid all the challenges thrown up by the current pandemic the government may at least win a reprieve from…

JL Dutaut
JACK WORTH
Opinion

Keyboard commentators should think before they type

Nobody’s asking anyone to clap for teachers but their incredible efforts to reinvent school deserve better than uninformed public…

JL Dutaut
PAUL WHITEMAN
Opinion

After lockdown, an opportunity for something even better than before

Rebuilding a culture of learning after lockdown will take intentional action, writes Peps Mccrea. Here are four key considerations…

JL Dutaut
PEPS MCCREA
The Knowledge

Research: Why do students value science but not want to be scientists?

With recruitment shortages and issues of representation still dogging the STEM professions, Louise Archer looks at the interventions most…

JL Dutaut
LOUISE ARCHER
The lockdown diary

A week in the life of Jonny Uttley

In the first of our new series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of…

JL Dutaut
JONNY UTTLEY
Opinion

We should be angry for our communities, not at them

More schools are being asked to be emergency responders in the Covid-19 crisis, but that’s been the norm at…

JL Dutaut
GERRY ROBINSON
Opinion

The revolution will not be memorised

Tom Bennett is underwhelmed by a hotch-potch of futurist platitudes in the first episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning…

JL Dutaut
TOM BENNETT

Must Read

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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
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,…

JL Dutaut
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

JL Dutaut
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,…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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