Exams

Ministers can’t muddle their way through to summer 2021 exams

Schools needed a plan for next summer’s exams weeks ago. Without it, we are already risking another fiasco, writes…

JL Dutaut
SARAH HANNAFIN
Opinion
Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic

Heightened risks mean more should be done to prevent exclusions now

The reality for excluded children is already dismaying and Covid could make it worse. It’s time for concerted action,…

JL Dutaut
CLAIRE HEALD
Opinion

We’d planned the first day back at school perfectly. Then it rained

It would be no exaggeration to say the last few months rank up there with the toughest of my…

Jess Staufenberg
ALASTAIR O’CONNOR
Opinion

Refusing to fund Covid costs will plunge schools like mine back into the red

Yesterday felt like the final straw for many school leaders up and down the country. Schools minister Nick Gibb…

Jess Staufenberg
PAUL GOSLING
Opinion

While schools leaders continue to deliver, Westminster continues to fail them

Schools will do their job as they have throughout this crisis – now it’s time politicians do theirs, writes…

JL Dutaut
PAUL WHITEMAN
Opinion

Government and teachers’ realities are increasingly worlds apart

Ongoing UCL research shows the Covid crisis has widened a chasm between teachers and government that threatens to become…

JL Dutaut
ALICE BRADBURY
Opinion

To solve the exam mess, we need to go Bacc to the future

Political schemes and partial solutions are how our qualification system got into this mess – it’s time for something…

JL Dutaut
TOM SHERRINGTON
Opinion

Overcoming the new challenges facing EAL learners and their teachers

Supporting learners with English as an additional language will be more challenging than ever this year, but also more…

JL Dutaut
SILVANA RICHARDSON
Opinion

Alarm bells continue to ring, but where is the coordinated action?

As the Education Policy Insitute publishes its annual report on the state of education in England, Jo Huchinson says…

JL Dutaut
JO HUTCHINSON

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Curriculum

The curriculum review isn’t ‘dumbing down’ – it’s levelling up

Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove’s education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel…

John Dickens
Sir Hamid Patel
Parental leave

Some schools have cracked parental leave – so why can’t everyone? 

Education leaders must take note of a parliamentary debate last week on maternity and paternity pay, says Emma Sheppard

John Dickens
Emma Sheppard
Inclusion

Ofsted says identify children previously in care. But how?

Ofsted’s new focus will ensure children previously known to social care become more visible – but schools need better…

John Dickens
Kiran Gill

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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,…

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
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Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

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

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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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