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Work experience can benefit employers as well as schools

Ask not what employers can do for your students. Ask what your students can do for employers, says Gerard…

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Respecting teachers’ professionalism

Winning friends and influencing people are important, especially when new ministers are appointed and new policies are introduced. Suggestions…

Colin Richards

Opinion

We are rewarding the wrong school leaders

The UK is falling behind in international league tables because it is appointing, rewarding and recognising the wrong school…

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Opinion

Independent schools want to engage with state schools but red tape abounds

Tom Hicks was thrilled when his son had the chance to play in a local under-7 football tournament. But…

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Developmentalism vs mastery: should teachers be ‘flinging mud at the wall’?

Should teachers ‘fling mud at the wall’ or should they follow a mastery approach, asks Heather Fearn There are two…

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Historians make the best superheads. Ugh.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them. And if you…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

Should the new College of Teaching receive state financial aid?

Recent archival research at the school of education, University of Adelaide, and at UCL, Institute of Education, London reveals…

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The social capital of a private education

Privately educated pupils earn more – but they also get better “quality” jobs. Why is that, ask Anna Vignoles…

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Is race the elephant in the staffroom?

Men at the recent WomenEd conference admitted they were scared to talk about gender. Are white people just as…

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Opinion: Edtech

The DfE’s new materials dangerously underplay AI’s risks

AI support materials published by the department last week effectively transfer responsibility for all of its risks onto schools

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Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey

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Opinion: Solutions

How to answer parents’ questions about dyslexia

Jamie Oliver’s new documentary is likely to spark questions from parents. These are likely to be the most common,…

JL Dutaut

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Sarah Scott

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Opinion: Policy

The schools bill must do more to support displaced children

Labour’s bill promises to deliver needed change for children not in school, but without amendments one vulnerable group could…

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Diana Sutton

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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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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