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Grammar schools can and do tackle social mobility

Funding for expansion is exactly how grammar schools like ours will deliver on our social mobility promise, writes Gary…

JL Dutaut

GARY HICKEY

Opinion

What does good online teaching and learning look like?

Jon Eaton reflects on an early foray into online learning and how EEF research helped him learn lessons fast…

JL Dutaut

JON EATON

Sexual abuse

Making the vulnerable visible is how we will close gaps

Policy makers are able to really see vulnerable students for the first time, but will they choose to look?…

JL Dutaut

Harry Quilter-Pinner* and Kiran Gill**

Covid

Covid adaptations have actually improved some aspects of school life

It’s not very new any more – and it certainly isn’t normal yet – but the adapted school day…

JL Dutaut

TIM ROACH

Exams

Few certainties, but exams are fairest and should go ahead

Schools can be confident that Ofqual and exam boards have the tools to make summer 2021 exams fair, writes…

JL Dutaut

DAME GLENYS STACEY

Opinion

How can school-charity partnerships help tackle lost learning?

With the national tutoring programme set to launch soon, a roundtable from earlier this year offers useful insights on…

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ALIX ROBERTSON* and SUSANNAH HARDYMAN**

Sexual abuse

Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic

Two out of 27. How government is failing the inclusion test

The government has only implemented two of 27 recommendations from the Timpson review of school exclusion. Cath Murray offers suggestions for how…

JL Dutaut

CATH MURRAY

Opinion

Special schools show how much the system’s resilience is being tested

We’re in it for the long haul but special schools are the canary in the coal mine of the…

JL Dutaut

MADELAINE CAPLIN

Opinion

Covid: We need data on learning loss and we need it fast

Summer exams will come too late to start learning useful lessons from Covid but we don’t have to wait…

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NATALIE PERERA* AND JOHN MOORE**

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This week’s best responses from our readers

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Freddie Whittaker

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Opinion: school funding

5 helpful ways ministers can support schools to cut costs

With this week’s budget expected to offer little for squeezed schools, one trust leader outlines suggestions for ministers to…

John Dickens

Keziah Featherstone

School structures

Why the MAT debate misses the real opportunity

School-led partnerships offer the benefits of trusts without the restructuring, and work for schools that want to collaborate but…

John Dickens

Stephen Hall

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students

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

John Dickens

4mo

Sam Sykes

4mo

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

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