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Industry must put its money where its mouth is on careers education

Careers education is too important not to be compulsory, and too important to leave to busy, cash-strapped schools. Ruth…

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RUTH GILBERT

Opinion

Putting policy into practice in education

Calling for change in education is a national pastime but we can all learn from Arkansas about what not…

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JONATHAN HASLAM

Opinion

Looked-after children need better-trained teachers

Looked-after children and their teachers are being let down by a persistent lack of guidance. Closing the training gap…

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DR SARAH ALIX

Opinion

The real ‘squander’ is pupil premium’s lost focus

It is imperative that any new additional pupil premium funding in the budget is used solely for its intended…

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SIMON BARNES

Opinion

What next for schools after hair discrimination case?

No new precedent has been set in the recent hair discrimination case, writes Esther Maxwell, but our culture is…

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ESTHER MAXWELL

Opinion

Sweating the small stuff applies to finances as well as results

Rowena Hackwood says her list of efficiency suggestions have prompted a flurry of support, but achieving sustainable savings come…

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ROWENA HACKWOOD

Opinion

A response to some open letters

Being in the privileged position of re-elected Chair of both the best and most important select committee at Westminster…

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ROBERT HALFON

Opinion

How much impact does CPD really have? Here’s the evidence

In a profession as complex as teaching, it seems obvious that we should provide educators with access to professional…

Freddie Whittaker

JAMES ZUCCOLLO AND HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

Opinion

Are teachers leading double lives to make ends meet?

It’s a given that teachers are superheroes but we’re only beginning to unmask their secret identities, writes Laura McInerney…

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LAURA MCINERNEY

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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…

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Meg Powell-Chandler

Opinion: Solutions

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…

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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…

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Emma Sheppard

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,…

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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

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,…

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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…

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Stephen Caldwell

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