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The Progress 8 measure explained

If you are not changing your exam entry policy, and results are the same, it is likely your EBacc3 score…

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When setting up a multi academy trust, what appointments do you have to make?

If you are setting up a multi academy trust, what are the minimum number of executive appointments you need…

Jessica Cumming

Opinion

How to answer the interview question: ‘What are you reading?’

Seven teachers, heads and trust chief executives let slip the interview answers they’d like to hear I have a shockingly…

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Opinion

What are the big decisions Justine Greening must make as education secretary?

A new education secretary, Justine Greening, has been appointed. So, what now? Natalie Perera describes what awaits at the…

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Justine Greening has the best job in government – she must address Morgan’s toxic legacy, quickly

As Nicky Morgan leaves office, her one-time opposite number Lucy Powell glances over her legacy Teachers everywhere will rejoice…

Lucy Powell

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Is Justine Greening the first education secretary to attend a comprehensive school? Yes, sort of

Justine Greening is the new education secretary and is said to be the first to have attended a comprehensive…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

South Asian – or ‘Shanghai’ – mastery maths, explained

This week the government announced £41 million of funding over the next four years to support the introduction of…

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Opinion

Educators should allow students to feel working-class pride

Tony Sewell gets some things right, but his rhetoric on social mobility should be approached with suspicion, says Garth…

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The education of Muslim students in turbulent times

What have you been researching? I am looking at the education of Muslim students and in particular, Muslims’ expectations…

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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….

JL Dutaut

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

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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…

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Matt Hood

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 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…

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Stephen Caldwell

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