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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
LAURA MCINERNEY
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
VICKY WILSON

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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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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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