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How can we adapt to new practices while keeping workload down?

Covid has reduced our face-to-face contact with colleagues. So how do we sustain school improvement in an era of…

JL Dutaut
TOM STEVENS
Opinion

Home-schoolers deserve better than misinformation and distrust

If policymakers want to better understand home-schooling their focus should not be on pushing a failing model into homes,…

JL Dutaut
ANNA DUSSEAU
Opinion

It’s OK for BAME teachers to hold conservative educational values

Crucial work is needed to tackle racial injustice in education, but it won’t be achieved by silencing challenging voices…

JL Dutaut
SHIVAN DAVIS
Opinion
national tutoring programme

A fighting chance in the parental arms race of tutoring

Amid criticism of NTP funding rules – with home tutoring disallowed and restricted to one subject per pupil –…

JL Dutaut
BECKY FRANCIS
Covid

The government’s Covid response has gone from shameful to shameless

This government has some nerve telling teachers to keep calm and carry on, writes Mary Bousted “Tell your members…

JL Dutaut
MARY BOUSTED
Opinion

How do essential skills shape young people’s life outcomes?

What do we know about the impact of skills-focused interventions and what does it mean for teachers? Will Millard…

JL Dutaut
WILL MILLARD* and DR ELNAZ KASHEFPAKDEL**
Opinion

We can have sustainable schools if we pull together

The best place to start the green revolution is in our schools, say Mathilde Iveson and Amelie Nichols We’ve…

JL Dutaut
MATHILDE IVESON and AMELIE NICHOLS
Opinion

The government’s culture war is chilling for curriculum rigour

Accusations of anti-patriotism and threats of legal action have worrying implications for teachers of history, writes Jonathan Mountstevens When…

JL Dutaut
JONATHAN MOUNTSTEVENS
Opinion

Tackling racism starts with teacher training and development

The Institute of Race Relations’ recent paper shows why we can’t let up on the fight against racism in…

JL Dutaut
DR HEATHER MCCLUE

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Teachers need support to defend diversity from far-right attacks

As the prime minister has affirmed, we will not surrender our flag. Nor will we surrender our future to…

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Dr Nikos Savvas
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You can’t build inclusion on calming spaces alone

Space is not the same as capacity. It’s a key difference that matters, writes Dr Nic Crossley

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How note-taking and AI reading aids could work together to support learning

If designed and used carefully, perhaps AI need not replace or diminish established learning practices, but can instead complement…

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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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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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University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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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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