Opinion: Estates

How to plan for estates in spite of Budget disappointment

The promised additional funding for school estates won’t get near fixing long-term neglect. Here’s how to make the most…

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Diane McKinley
Opinion: Academy trusts

The financial clock is ticking on staff cuts in academy trusts

The MAT Finance Sector Insight Report reveals staff cuts are on the way – and some could have been…

JL Dutaut
Will Jordan
Opinion: Solutions

How to raise attendance and engagement through coaching

Connecting students with each other for academic and personal mentoring has helped us transform attitudes to learning and outcomes

JL Dutaut
Sarah Hadlow


Opinion: Policy

FSM reform is critical to reviving social mobility

A bill is moving through parliament that could significantly improve children’s lives and schools’ budgets

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Jon Datta
Opinion

Balancing accountabilities: Whose scorecard is it anyway?

A trusted profession can deliver its own balanced scorecard for accountability better than an inspectorate. Teaching wouldn’t be the…

JL Dutaut
Emma Knights
The Knowledge

What can schools do to deliver Labour’s youth guarantee?

The government has just made a very strong case for investing in much-improved careers education. Our report shows how…

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Oli De Botton
Opinion

Breakfast club policy must learn the hard lessons of the NTP

A new report sheds light on where the national tutoring programme went wrong and offers salient lessons for Labour’s…

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Anne-Marie Canning
Opinion: Workforce

Labour must support leaders to improve retention

Regional heat-maps would allow school leaders and policy makers to better respond to local recruitment and retention needs

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Michael McCarthy
The Knowledge

Early years nutrition is vital in addressing educational inequalities

A new report by EPI reveals inequalities that start long before school and affect educational trajectories – and how…

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Dr Kerris Cooper

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

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 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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell

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