Opinion

Schools and MATs need to take urgent action on GDPR

Data safeguarding is as important as any other safeguarding and more work needs to be done to ensure schools…

JL Dutaut
LYNNE TAYLOR
Opinion

Trainee teachers’ mental health should be ringing alarm bells

Beyond the rhetoric of greater mental health provision in schools for both pupils and staff, not enough has been…

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EMMA HOLLIS
Opinion

Too little data on restraint puts children at risk

Growing concern about the use of restraint in schools has led the Equality and Human Rights Commission to launch…

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LAURA LUCKING
Opinion

An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee

Congratulations! Not only did you get appointed onto the best of the select committees (I may be biased) but…

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DEBRA KIDD
Opinion

An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee

Congratulations! Not only did you win an election to Westminster, you’ve now got the cherry on the cake: a…

JL Dutaut
MARK LEHAIN
Opinion

How UK independent schools should prepare for coronavirus disruption

Many Chinese pupils are set to go home to mainland China or Hong Kong for February half-term. Vicky Wilson…

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VICKY WILSON
Opinion

Ability grouping is potentially harmful but the alternatives are untested

England’s schools make more use of within-school “ability” grouping than those in other similar countries, yet there is no…

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DR BECKY TAYLOR
Opinion

Young people’s views are a vital to solving the knife crime crisis

So much has been written and said about knife crime in recent months, yet so little of it has…

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LISA CAPPER
Opinion
A minister is embroiled in a row with the authors of a Catholic RSE curriculum, A Fertile Heart, which has been condemned by campaigners.

Teaching contraception without teaching conception fails young people

Looking ahead to compulsory relationships and sex education from September, fertility pioneer Professor Simon Fishel says improved fertility education would…

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PROFESSOR SIMON FISHEL

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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
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…

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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

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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
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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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