The Legal Leader

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
The Research Leader

How schools are evolving to meet new and persistent challenges

Our new State of the Nation in Education report is a testament to the sector’s impatience for innovation in…

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Dr Kate Chhatwal
The Research Leader

Six lessons from the biggest ever study on pupil engagement

Trends arising from a study of over 100,000 pupils sheds light on how school leaders can best tackle attendance,…

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Jonny Sobczyk Boddington
The Research Leader

What leaders really want from NPQs (and the review isn’t asking)

In-depth research with school leaders reveals what the NPQ review should actually be asking them and how the programmes…

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Shane Leaning
Opinion: SEND

What we can learn from other countries about ‘SEND’ funding

England is increasingly an outlier in its approach to identifying and meeting learners’ needs

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Amanda Watkins
Opinion: Funding

The hidden funding cut that will soon affect your school

Cuts to support for a group of vulnerable children garnered little attention, but they will have consequences for the…

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Lucy Watson
Opinion: Accountability

How will we know if RISE teams are really helping?

Labour’s school improvement drive is well-intentioned, but a crucial piece of the policy puzzle is missing that could undermine…

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Stuart Gardner
Opinion: Policy

Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day

There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about…

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Jon Bryan
Opinion: Solutions

How to build a new system on inclusive foundations

We need to re-draw the incentives that drive SEND provision, starting upstream of diagnosis and right down to how…

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Matt Hood

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Signs of progress give cause for optimism ahead of 2026 challenges

As we approach the end of another tough calendar year for school leaders and their teams, they deserve our…

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Opinion

Beyond the scroll: 5 ways to support young people with social media 

Students tell me their biggest sources of stress are not tied to social media, but instead to their futures

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Dr Helen Care
Opinion

Teachers need support to defend diversity from far-right attacks

As the prime minister has affirmed, we will not surrender our flag. Nor will we surrender our future to…

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Dr Nikos Savvas

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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
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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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James Handscombe
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