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Opinion

These closures are testament to a failed government strategy

The prime minister sounded an optimistic note tonight but it will take a lot more to alleviate our fears…

JL Dutaut

MARY BOUSTED

Opinion

Five Top Tips for Blended Learning

As a new term begins and mixed provision looks likely to continue to be the norm, Helen Newies shares…

JL Dutaut

HELEN NEWIES

Opinion: Leadership

Supporting EAL students through the pandemic’s disruptions

Students with English as an additional language face the same challenges as all other learners, but some are unique…

JL Dutaut

ASHWINI PARULEKAR

Opinion

Five government resolutions our teachers deserve for 2021

Our troubles are not at an end but we can lay the groundwork for a better post-Covid education system…

JL Dutaut

ALISON PEACOCK

Opinion

School leaders say the government must not expect schools themselves to run on-site daily testing.

A 7-step plan for running mass testing in schools

Over the past few weeks, three of our schools, all hard-hit by covid-related absence in the autumn term, participated…

John Dickens

HAMID PATEL

Opinion

Time and again school leaders have risen to the Covid challenge – but at what cost?

There is no doubt as we enter the final turbulent days of 2020 that the parameters that underpin our…

John Dickens

SIR DAVID CARTER

Opinion

School workforce data shows more teachers leaving the profession and sickness creeping up post-Covid

Making the best of tuition: tips for schools starting their NTP journey

The scope of the national tutoring programme and the breadth of providers and approaches are daunting. Simon Barnes sets…

JL Dutaut

SIMON BARNES

Opinion

Effective tutoring needs new thinking from school leaders

Tutoring can transform life outcomes for students – but ensuring the NTP’s success depends on school leaders understanding its…

JL Dutaut

JULIA SILVER

Opinion

Primary testing in a pandemic: what is it good for?

The government’s moves on primary testing are welcome but the tests that remain don’t fufil the purpose they’ve been…

JL Dutaut

ALICE BRADBURY

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Opinion

Forget the buzzword bingo, here’s how schools can get belonging right

Children show us belonging is simple. If we see them, hear them, know them and accept them for who…

Freddie Whittaker

Anthony Benedict

Opinion

Intentional design: What stewardship of the school system really demands

A mature school system should allow for specialisation without stigma and for divestment without failure narratives, writes Becks Boomer-Clark

Freddie Whittaker

Becks Boomer-Clark

Opinion

Lessons for England on using AI to boost attendance

As schools here are given an AI-generated target for attendance, one Welsh head explains how his school has used…

Freddie Whittaker

Huw Powell

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

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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