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Opinion

The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Could lockdown be boosting teacher supply?

Amid all the challenges thrown up by the current pandemic the government may at least win a reprieve from…

JL Dutaut

JACK WORTH

Opinion

Keyboard commentators should think before they type

Nobody’s asking anyone to clap for teachers but their incredible efforts to reinvent school deserve better than uninformed public…

JL Dutaut

PAUL WHITEMAN

Opinion

After lockdown, an opportunity for something even better than before

Rebuilding a culture of learning after lockdown will take intentional action, writes Peps Mccrea. Here are four key considerations…

JL Dutaut

PEPS MCCREA

The Knowledge

Research: Why do students value science but not want to be scientists?

With recruitment shortages and issues of representation still dogging the STEM professions, Louise Archer looks at the interventions most…

JL Dutaut

LOUISE ARCHER

The lockdown diary

A week in the life of Jonny Uttley

In the first of our new series following the impacts of lockdown on the personal and professional lives of…

JL Dutaut

JONNY UTTLEY

Opinion

We should be angry for our communities, not at them

More schools are being asked to be emergency responders in the Covid-19 crisis, but that’s been the norm at…

JL Dutaut

GERRY ROBINSON

Opinion

The revolution will not be memorised

Tom Bennett is underwhelmed by a hotch-potch of futurist platitudes in the first episode of Alex Beard’s The Learning…

JL Dutaut

TOM BENNETT

Opinion

After COVID-19, we must finally remember the forgotten third

The pandemic has forced us to reinvent how we award grades but far more fundamental questions about our exam…

JL Dutaut

ROY BLATCHFORD

Opinion

More action is required quickly for thousands of ‘invisible’ children

Schools are doing an amazing job for the nation’s vulnerable children but many are invisible and government needs to…

JL Dutaut

LAYLA MORAN, MP

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Opinion

Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker

Jon Hutchinson

The Research Leader

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Our review of 550 pupil premium strategies found many schools aren’t strategic at all – which suggests leaders need…

Freddie Whittaker

Emma Dobson

Opinion

Repairs to the school-parent contract must come from the top

The situation is not irreparable, and the first small steps have already been taken towards forging a more positive…

Freddie Whittaker

Victoria Hatton

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

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students

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

John Dickens

6mo

Sam Sykes

6mo

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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