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Are teachers leading double lives to make ends meet?

It’s a given that teachers are superheroes but we’re only beginning to unmask their secret identities, writes Laura McInerney…

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Schools and MATs need to take urgent action on GDPR

Data safeguarding is as important as any other safeguarding and more work needs to be done to ensure schools…

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LYNNE TAYLOR
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…

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EMMA HOLLIS
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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…

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LAURA LUCKING
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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…

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DEBRA KIDD
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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…

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MARK LEHAIN
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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…

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VICKY WILSON
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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…

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