Opinion

More exclusions are definitely NOT the answer

Jules Daulby hits back against the claim that the number of pupils being excluded from mainstream schools might be…

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JULES DAULBY
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Is this the real exclusions ‘scandal’ – leaving too many kids in mainstream?

How can the education committee claim the current level of school exclusions is too high, when no one even…

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JOHN BLAKE
Opinion

Beware the government’s sleight of hand on academy finances

The government’s new method for calculating school budgets obscures the true number of schools in financial deficit, explains Jon Andrews…

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JON ANDREWS
Opinion

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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CAROLINE HAMILTON

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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

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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…

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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…

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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
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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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University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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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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