Opinion: Solutions

Five ways to avoid leadership burnout

Drawing on his experience as a leadership coach, Patrick Cozier sets out some effective ways to do the job…

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Patrick Cozier
Opinion: Solutions

A successful breakfast club is the first lesson of the day

Our award-winning breakfast club has been running for 16 years. Its success is down to being an integral part…

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Lisa Pegman
The Knowledge

How to use feedback effectively for CPD

Feedback is crucial to ongoing professional formation, so how can we ensure it hits home?

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Dr Ourania Maria Ventista and C.J. Rauch
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted already has a proven model of better inspections

Ofsted’s reforms could yet prove successful if the inspectorate is able to learn from its own best practice and…

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Kerry Boffey
Opinion: Policy

Five lessons from Behaviour Hubs – and why Labour should keep them

The Behaviour Hubs programme has highlighted best practice and provided a model for effectively meeting our biggest challenges

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Sam Strickland
Opinion: Politics

Can education learn to stop worrying and love collaboration?

Bridget Phillipson’s emerging vision marks an end to competition as the primary driver of school improvement – but is…

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Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Policy

STEM scheme cuts fly in the face of global AI leadership

Given the government’s intent to become a world leader in AI, cutting crucial school support is an own goal…

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Severine Trouillet
Opinion: Workforce

Solutions: How to embrace the benefits of flexible working

With the right guidance and recourse to best practice, flexible working as a day-one right could make teaching a…

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Lucy Makins
Opinion: Workforce

I’m still unqualified after ten years. Here’s why

The government is right to pursue flexibility as a retention strategy – but it could also help with recruitment…

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Clare Connell

Must Read

Opinion: Inclusion

How we’re managing to beat the NEET challenge

Our focus on relationships, readiness and real-world support means we don’t just help young people leave school – we…

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Kevin Buchanan
The Curriculum Conversation

How the curriculum review can deliver its diversity goal

There is too much to do for the Francis review to diversify the curriculum all on its own –…

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Diana Ohene-Darko
Opinion: Funding

The spending review spells trouble unless ministers act fast

The spin around this week’s fiscal event will quickly unravel, and ministers will need to be ready with solutions…

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Sir Jon Coles

ITT

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
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EXAMS

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
Exams
The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

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Stephen Caldwell
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