Opinion

PISA results reflect persistent disadvantage gap in UK education

Today’s publication of the OECD’s international education league tables are likely to generate excited headlines, but the reality is…

JL Dutaut
JOSHUA FULLARD
Opinion

Could fixing retention be easier than politicians make out?

The mistaken belief that money doesn’t matter to teachers has consequences. For too long, policymakers have relied on the…

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DR SAM SIMS
Opinion

School communities can take action now on climate change

Until such time as politicians put the environment at the heart of policy, school climate strikes will continue to…

JL Dutaut
FIONA CARNIE
Opinion

Helping schools walk their talk on climate change

There is still a gap between talk and the education sector’s response to our changing climate, writes Felicity Liggins….

JL Dutaut
FELICITY LIGGINS
Opinion
Recruitment

Will general election promises solve the recruitment and retention crisis?

Figures published today show the Department for Education (DfE) has missed its secondary teacher training target for a seventh…

JL Dutaut
JACK WORTH
Opinion

What schools can learn from Game of Thrones on mottos

I’m fairly sure my school had a motto, but I can’t remember what it was. What I can remember…

John Dickens
BAZ RAMAIAH
Opinion
Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic but exclusions still falling

Is it ever OK to remove a child from your roll?

Ofsted has been downgrading schools that “off-roll” students. But what does it actually mean? Cath Murray explains… The whole…

John Dickens
CATH MURRAY
Opinion

Progress 8 fails pupils with special needs

Thousands of pupils with complex needs are guaranteed a negative P8 score and are at increased risk of exclusion…

John Dickens
STEVE PRESTON
Opinion

Organising our thoughts about teaching – the work of Mary Kennedy

How we organise our thoughts shapes how we view the world and how we act. At Ambition Institute, we…

JL Dutaut
HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

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Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut
Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

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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

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

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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