Opinion: Edtech

I, teacher: The five stages to unleashing robot educators

The robot teachers are coming. Here’s how their evolution is likely to play out

JL Dutaut
Tony Staneff
The Knowledge

What’s really behind teacher shortages here and abroad?

A new report attempts to find the simplest explanation for why countries with teacher shortages have them while others…

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Professor Stephen Gorard
Opinion: SEND

Unreformed, England’s SEN system is financially unsustainable

A new report from the National Audit Office lays bare the financial crisis related to SEND provision and makes…

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Emma Willson
The Knowledge

How we’ll meet Labour’s (very) ambitious work experience goal

New research shows the scale of the challenge involved in meeting the government’s aim of two weeks’ work experience…

JL Dutaut
Chris Kenyon
Opinion: Curriculum review

The Francis Review must usher in the age of digital assessment

We can’t wait for a digital big bang. We must keep making incremental progress to maximise its potential for…

JL Dutaut
Colin Hughes
Opinion: Solutions

How to get parents on board with your behaviour policy

Aligning policy and parental expectations is vital in ensuring a behaviour policy is well supported at home and ultimately…

JL Dutaut
Paul Dix
Opinion: Curriculum

We can start creating a broader curriculum without a review

A broader, more creative curriculum doesn’t have to wait until the curriculum review has reported and its recommendations are…

JL Dutaut
Sharon Hague
Opinion: Curriculum review

Three concerns about the curriculum and assessment review

Flaws in the review’s terms of reference mean a(nother) opportunity to deal with the perennial issue of curriculum overload…

JL Dutaut
Joe Hallgarten
Opinion: Admissions

How fair banding makes us more inclusive – not less

While some decry ‘selection by stealth’, fair banding assessments have in fact earned us an award for our admissions…

JL Dutaut
Michael Gosling

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

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Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

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Andrew O’Neill
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but…

JL Dutaut
Matt Hood

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,…

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
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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,…

JL Dutaut
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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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