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Scrap national pay scales and let schools decide

With school leaders and teachers frustrated about the government’s delay in announcing teacher pay rises, Mark Lehain makes the…

Mark Lehain

MARK LEHAIN

Opinion

Teacher pay scales are essential – here’s why

With the government having announced the teacher pay rises for 2018-19, Mary Bousted explains why she thinks centralised pay…

Mary Bousted

MARY BOUSTED

Opinion

Teacher pay rise: how will different schools implement it?

The Department for Education has announced that it will help fund pay rises for teachers and school leaders next…

Expert Contributor

MICON METCALFE

Opinion

Let’s not turn RE into a weapon in the war against Catholic schools

Some campaigners have an ulterior motive in pushing for a national RE curriculum – they know it would cause Catholic schools…

Expert Contributor

ANDY LEWIS

Opinion

Memorable profile interviews of 2017-18 (Or, ‘Why would any school leader invite in a journalist?’)

Schools Week’s features editor Cath Murray looks back on some of the memorable profile interviews from this year Why…

Schools Week Reporter

CATH MURRAY

Opinion

What I learned from the Shanghai maths teacher exchange

The UK can certainly learn from the Far East, says Caroline Hamilton, but cultural context is key, and what…

Expert Contributor

CAROLINE HAMILTON

Diversity

How do we improve diversity in the media without tokenism?

Every summer, Schools Week publishes a count of how many women vs men – and how many BAME contributors – have…

Schools Week Reporter

CATH MURRAY

Opinion

Where did maths mastery come from?

The roots of some ‘Asian’ teaching approaches lie closer to home than you might think, observes Mark Boylan Read…

Expert Contributor

MARK BOYLAN

Opinion

New relationships and sex education guidance is here – but does it do the job?

Teachers are crying out for clarity on what they can teach in relationships and sex education classes, but does…

Alix Robertson

LUCY EMMERSON

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Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

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Bridget Phillipson

22h

Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

JL Dutaut

Leora Cruddas

Labour’s first year

SEND: Hope still prevails, but Labour must learn to listen

Treating the specialist and alternative sectors as afterthoughts means ministers have missed chances to progress towards a more inclusive…

JL Dutaut

Dr Nic Crossley

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

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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