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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

Covid

Plotting a ten-year course is the sensible response to Covid

A ten-year education plan like Blackpool’s is precisely the kind of policymaking our communities need and deserve, writes Frank…

JL Dutaut

FRANK NORRIS

Opinion

We must secure education technology’s great leap forward

Education technology has taken great strides in the past year. Now the legacy of its impact must be secured…

JL Dutaut

GAVIN WILLIAMSON

Opinion

Our assessment system contributes to poor mental health

There is plenty of inspiration to draw on worldwide if we seek to reform our assessment system – as…

JL Dutaut

OLLY NEWTON

Opinion: Workforce

How can teachers’ learning contribute to better inclusion?

Inclusion is a constant teacher priority and our research shows some forms of professional learning foster more effective approaches…

JL Dutaut

Professor Rachel Lofthouse and Dr Mhairi C. Beaton

Opinion: Workforce

Discrimination against BAME school business professionals is nothing new

A new report into diversity among school business professionals (SBPs) offers new insights into this under-researched workforce, writes Sandy…

JL Dutaut

SANDY TOMLINSON

Must Read

Opinion

Social mobility can be harmful if it means ditching your roots

Schools need to replace deficit-based narratives with approaches that celebrate belonging, dignity and identity affirmation, says Danielle Lewis-Egonu

Freddie Whittaker

Danielle Lewis-Egnou

The Business Leader

The school business leader role has evolved, but do policymakers know?

Today’s practitioners lead across finance, estates, people, digital systems, governance and organisational improvement. The language we use has not…

Freddie Whittaker

Stephen Morales

Opinion

Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker

Dr Vasilis Strogilos

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

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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

5mo

Sam Sykes

5mo

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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