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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

Opinion

The grading fiasco has not finished unravelling

Even if next year’s exams go ahead without disruption, the game is up for our rigged grading system, writes…

JL Dutaut

DENNIS SHERWOOD

Opinion

Five ways to model healthy relationships and support wellbeing

The start of compulsory relationships and sex education is a perfect opportunity to model supportive practices in these uncertain…

JL Dutaut

PAULA TALMAN

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Teachers need support to defend diversity from far-right attacks

As the prime minister has affirmed, we will not surrender our flag. Nor will we surrender our future to…

Freddie Whittaker

Dr Nikos Savvas

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You can’t build inclusion on calming spaces alone

Space is not the same as capacity. It’s a key difference that matters, writes Dr Nic Crossley

Freddie Whittaker

Dr Nic Crossley

Opinion

How note-taking and AI reading aids could work together to support learning

If designed and used carefully, perhaps AI need not replace or diminish established learning practices, but can instead complement…

Freddie Whittaker

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Dr Jake Hofman

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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

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students

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

John Dickens

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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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