Opinion

Trainee teachers’ mental health should be ringing alarm bells

Beyond the rhetoric of greater mental health provision in schools for both pupils and staff, not enough has been…

JL Dutaut
EMMA HOLLIS
Opinion

Too little data on restraint puts children at risk

Growing concern about the use of restraint in schools has led the Equality and Human Rights Commission to launch…

JL Dutaut
LAURA LUCKING
Opinion

An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee

Congratulations! Not only did you get appointed onto the best of the select committees (I may be biased) but…

JL Dutaut
DEBRA KIDD
Opinion

An open letter to the new members of the Education Select Committee

Congratulations! Not only did you win an election to Westminster, you’ve now got the cherry on the cake: a…

JL Dutaut
MARK LEHAIN
Opinion

How UK independent schools should prepare for coronavirus disruption

Many Chinese pupils are set to go home to mainland China or Hong Kong for February half-term. Vicky Wilson…

JL Dutaut
VICKY WILSON
Opinion

Ability grouping is potentially harmful but the alternatives are untested

England’s schools make more use of within-school “ability” grouping than those in other similar countries, yet there is no…

JL Dutaut
DR BECKY TAYLOR
Opinion

Young people’s views are a vital to solving the knife crime crisis

So much has been written and said about knife crime in recent months, yet so little of it has…

JL Dutaut
LISA CAPPER
Opinion
A minister is embroiled in a row with the authors of a Catholic RSE curriculum, A Fertile Heart, which has been condemned by campaigners.

Teaching contraception without teaching conception fails young people

Looking ahead to compulsory relationships and sex education from September, fertility pioneer Professor Simon Fishel says improved fertility education would…

JL Dutaut
PROFESSOR SIMON FISHEL
Opinion

Time to pause Ofsted – here’s how

This year’s Headteachers’ Roundtable summit will question Ofsted’s legitimacy and efficacy. Stephen Tierney explains why we need to #PauseOfsted,…

JL Dutaut
STEPHEN TIERNEY

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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

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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

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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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