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The digital divide is only one of the challenges facing edtech

Our new report shows that despite a transformative year edtech companies face important challenges to meet teachers’ needs, writes…

JL Dutaut

LOIC MENZIES

Opinion

Now the government must show it can stick to its guns

This week’s announcement gives welcome certainty but the true test is whether the department can work out how to…

JL Dutaut

ANNA MCSHANE

Opinion

No more excuses for failing to adopt flexible working

Opportunities for career progression to school leadership roles are limited for those who do not work full-time, says Suzanne…

JL Dutaut

SUZANNE BROWN

Opinion

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

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**

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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

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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