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Why we shouldn’t rush to scrap GCSEs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

We need a debate about the future of education post-Covid-19, but that shouldn’t mean a rush to abolish things…

Freddie Whittaker

TIM OATES

Opinion

How can we help students transfer learning to new contexts?

Getting students to apply knowledge and skills in new contexts isn’t easy but some approaches are more likely to…

JL Dutaut

HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

Opinion

What academy finances can tell us about the future of the sector

Despite a slow-down in academy sector growth overall, some have clearly out-performed others. Who? How? And what can we…

JL Dutaut

PAM TUCKETT

Opinion

Can schools make staff vaccination mandatory?

There are good arguments for expecting school staff to get their vaccination against Covid but any policy must consider…

JL Dutaut

PAMAN SINGH

Opinion

Pandemic teacher training is a privilege, not a hardship

The most valuable lesson of teacher training during Covid has been the importance of practising what you teach, writes…

JL Dutaut

AMBER SMITH

Opinion

An inspector (video) calls. Our experience of Ofsted remote visits

The regulator has a difficult balance to strike between accountability and distraction but our Ofsted inspection team got the…

JL Dutaut

CARLY WATERMAN

Opinion

What have we learned about moving education online?

After the initial buzz of moving our curriculum online, the new lockdown is slowly revealing the pedagogical approaches we…

JL Dutaut

AMY CURTIS

Opinion

Language teaching will suffer the loss of Erasmus

The programme’s impact on language teaching has been phenomenal and the new Turing scheme will have big shoes to…

JL Dutaut

PAUL HARRISON

The lockdown diary

Testing times

Emma Marshall opens her lockdown diary to reveal hope for young people’s futures amid testing times for schools

JL Dutaut

EMMA MARSHALL

Must Read

Letters to the editor

This week’s best responses from our readers

Another way for school readiness, why phone bans ARE the brave choice and enrichment’s GCSE blinkers problem

Freddie Whittaker

Various

Opinion: school funding

5 helpful ways ministers can support schools to cut costs

With this week’s budget expected to offer little for squeezed schools, one trust leader outlines suggestions for ministers to…

John Dickens

Keziah Featherstone

School structures

Why the MAT debate misses the real opportunity

School-led partnerships offer the benefits of trusts without the restructuring, and work for schools that want to collaborate but…

John Dickens

Stephen Hall

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

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

4mo

Sam Sykes

4mo

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

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