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The DfE revealed further details of its senior mental health lead training plans.

Keeping schools mentally healthy: sometimes young people just need to talk

Sometimes young people just want to talk, says Lisa Fathers, who explains how the devolved administration in Greater Manchester…

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LISA FATHERS

Opinion

A plan to centralise school reserves and funding at REAch2 is to be paused for ACAS talks

If schools want more money from government, they must use funds efficiently

The government’s scheme for providing financial advice to schools is helping them redirect more resources to the frontline, argues…

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LORD THEODORE AGNEW

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A study will look at the Covid legacy for Year 11 pupils.

PRUs shouldn’t just be part of the flowchart

England is recreating the old grammar and secondary modern system, only this time, based on behaviour not attainment, says…

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JULES DAULBY

Opinion

Here’s the Lib Dems’ vision for the school system of the future

Teachers are overworked, undervalued and underpaid and we need to resource them better, says Layla Moran, setting out the…

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LAYLA MORAN

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The school appeals system is cementing inequalities: it’s time for the government to rethink admissions

The promised review of the school admissions system needs to materialise if the government wants to fulfil its social…

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EMILY HUNT

Opinion

The edtech strategy is a great leap – but backwards

A new government edtech strategy has been released, but does it stand up to scrutiny? Tony Parkin isn’t convinced……

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TONY PARKIN

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Schools and their pupils are clear – no one is an outsider

For the UK’s LGBT+ educators, these past few weeks have felt like going back in time. But equality is…

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MATT HOOD

Opinion

How do you make teenagers care about learning?

One approach to interest students is to focus lessons on topics they are interested in – but this demands…

Harry Fletcher-Wood

HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

Opinion

Exclusion or poor mental health: which comes first?

Children excluded from school are more likely to have poor mental health than their peers, but the direction of…

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TAMSIN FORD

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Gove’s traditionalists won, but now they see what was lost

Militant discipline and explicit instruction delivered higher exam grades, but the debate has moved on as pupils disengage from…

Freddie Whittaker

Jon Hutchinson

The Research Leader

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Our review of 550 pupil premium strategies found many schools aren’t strategic at all – which suggests leaders need…

Freddie Whittaker

Emma Dobson

Opinion

Repairs to the school-parent contract must come from the top

The situation is not irreparable, and the first small steps have already been taken towards forging a more positive…

Freddie Whittaker

Victoria Hatton

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

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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

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Sam Sykes

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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

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