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Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic but exclusions still falling

Turnaround school leaders must be able to exclude to keep pupils safe

There is much to admire about Edward Timpson’s review of school exclusions, starting with his clear statement that schools…

John Dickens

LEORA CRUDDAS

Opinion

How partnership working will work…and why it could fail

In the nine years Nick Gibb has been minister for schools (under one guise or another), we’ve seen a…

Catherine Murray

CATH MURRAY

Opinion

Top tips for managing transport in schools

Transport safety in schools is about a lot more than an annual service of the school minibus, says Surekha…

Expert Contributor

SUREKHA GOLLAPUDI

Opinion

How to make collaborative learning worthwhile

Everything that teachers do has a cost, a benefit, and (ideally) a valuable balance between the two. Often that…

Expert Contributor

C.J. RAUNCH

Opinion

There are no easy answers to school refusal

School refusal may be a little more understood that when it was identified in the 1930s, but we still…

Expert Contributor

FRAN MORGAN

Opinion

Ofsted’s evidence is so unfounded that their case for retaining grades collapses

Ofsted’s defence of its four-point grading scheme in its recent paper (Retaining the current grading system in education, April…

John Dickens

FRANK COFFIELD

Opinion

Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic

Which types of school are more likely to off-roll students?

It seems impossible that nearly 50,000 pupils disappeared from schools last year for no apparent reason. But this is…

Expert Contributor

SHONA GALT

Opinion

Who needs coding when it’s pupil safety that matters?

Schools would be better using their limited edtech resources to help pupils to stay safe and develop as informed…

Expert Contributor

LAURA LARKE

Opinion

What does a ‘high quality’ ITE curriculum look like?

Successful ITE curricula are co-designed and co-taught across a partnership, says Jan Rowe Ofsted’s recent attempt to confirm what…

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JAN ROWE

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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

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

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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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