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…

JL Dutaut
NATALIE PERERA* AND JOHN MOORE**
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Too many factors outside of heads’ control are causing anxieties to rise

Trying to earn the trust of communities while feeling untrusted by government is a recipe of sleepless nights, writes…

JL Dutaut
ALISON PEACOCK
Opinion
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Covid presents teacher recruitment gains but challenges lie ahead

The Covid recession presents teacher recruitment with short-term gains but now is not the time to ease off the…

JL Dutaut
JACK WORTH
Opinion

Our complex system leaves too many schools to navigate their way alone

Localism isn’t a problem in itself but the lack of mechanisms for sharing best practice is, writes Toby Greany…

JL Dutaut
TOBY GREANY
Opinion
NEU teaching Covid

How are maths departments responding to the challenge of blended learning?

UCL Institute of Education drew on their research network to find out how maths departments were adapting to closures…

JL Dutaut
DR BECKY TAYLOR
Opinion

The class of 2021 could end up being the most disadvantaged in recent memory

The biggest looming crisis in education is at risk of being missed in the frenetic news cycle, writes Eleanor…

JL Dutaut
ELEANOR HARRISON
Opinion

Knee-jerk government directives could cause an outbreak of early retirements

Expert senior leadership teams have supported one another, but they must now be afforded the space to make decisions…

JL Dutaut
SARAH RAY
Opinion

Teachers’ time is being wasted on inconsistent marking methods

The Teacher Assessment Framework used to mark writing in primary school takes a long time to apply – and…

JL Dutaut
DAISY CHRISTODOULOU
Opinion
attendance Covid

What school leaders need to know about HSE spot checks

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published an Education eBulletin on 4 September announcing its intention that, alongside businesses,…

Schools Week Reporter
HAYLEY DUNN

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Nigel de Gruchy, the teachers’ champion who savaged with a soundbite

The former trade union leader has died at the age of 82. One of his successors, Dr Patrick Roach,…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Patrick Roach
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Education starts at home, so we bought 20 of them for families

Short-term lets and instability wreck a child’s likelihood of succeeding academically – we cannot ignore what goes on outside…

Freddie Whittaker
John Barneby
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Teacher recruitment is turning a corner, but headline figures mask challenges

Increased entries to teacher training should be source of pride, but government must not forget communities where recovery won’t…

Freddie Whittaker
Paddy Dempsey

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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,…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
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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

JL Dutaut
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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

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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