2024 in review

Nothing to see here, move along please…

Very little has changed this year and very little is likely to change any time soon. Bah, humbug!

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Tim Leunig
Opinion: Policy

Rehearsed arguments about pay won’t help the sector

Responses to yesterday’s pay announcements do a disservice to the government and to the profession

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Andrew O’Neill
The Knowledge

Can ChatGPT help tackle teacher workload?

A new report reveals some positive findings about generative AI’s potential as a time-saver – with caveats

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Emily Yeomans
Opinion: Accountability

Accountability can’t rely on our current progress measures

Any reform of school accountability must include changing a headline measure that acts as a perverse incentive

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Frank Norris and Jonny Uttley
Opinion: Politics

This pay offer is an insult to a profession that voted for change

Below inflation, below average wage increases – and unfunded to boot – the school workforce will balk at more…

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Daniel Kebede
Opinion: Policy
More than half of schools did not complete a government catch-up programme for reception children

Fixing the school-readiness crisis requires more honesty

The prime minister’s ‘plan for change’ correctly identifies a major challenge but his new target could muddle efforts to…

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Felicity Gillespie
Opinion: Policy

Ignore the headlines. Behaviour Hubs have been a real success

Focusing on young people’s perceptions in the Behaviour Hubs’ interim report obfuscates key evidence that the programme is working

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Pan Panayiotou
Opinion: Solutions

The power of systematically closing knowledge gaps

Gaps in knowledge can arise from attendance issues but quickly become their cause. Here’s how we’ve made closing them…

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Jeremy Spencer
Opinion: Curriculum review

How can the curriculum better support the needs of EAL learners?

The evidence about EAL learners is clear: proficiency in English is the single most important predictor of their achievement….

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Katherine Solomon

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

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Michael Fordham
Opinion: Workforce

We’re backing teachers because we have a job to do together

Today’s investment is a clear sign of the government’s commitment to partnership in delivering high and rising standards for…

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Bridget Phillipson
Opinion: Legal

Legal: How to manage restructuring, redundancies and industrial action

With more budget cuts on the horizon, here are some answers to the questions leaders ask us most about…

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Sarah Linden

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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