Opinion: Politics

This pay offer is an insult to a profession that voted for change

Below inflation, below average wage increases – and unfunded to boot – the school workforce will balk at more…

JL Dutaut
Daniel Kebede
Opinion: Policy
More than half of schools did not complete a government catch-up programme for reception children

Fixing the school-readiness crisis requires more honesty

The prime minister’s ‘plan for change’ correctly identifies a major challenge but his new target could muddle efforts to…

JL Dutaut
Felicity Gillespie
Opinion: Policy

Ignore the headlines. Behaviour Hubs have been a real success

Focusing on young people’s perceptions in the Behaviour Hubs’ interim report obfuscates key evidence that the programme is working

JL Dutaut
Pan Panayiotou
Opinion: Solutions

The power of systematically closing knowledge gaps

Gaps in knowledge can arise from attendance issues but quickly become their cause. Here’s how we’ve made closing them…

JL Dutaut
Jeremy Spencer
Opinion: Curriculum review

How can the curriculum better support the needs of EAL learners?

The evidence about EAL learners is clear: proficiency in English is the single most important predictor of their achievement….

JL Dutaut
Katherine Solomon
The Knowledge

What the media say about youth – and its impact

A new report reveals pervasive negative media portrayals of young people and how these affect how they perceive themselves

JL Dutaut
Elise Temple
The Knowledge

What impact has the pandemic had on pupils and schools?

A new NFER report reveals the impact of the pandemic on two cohorts of primary pupils over four years

JL Dutaut
Tara Paxman
Opinion: Academy trusts

Schools in merging trusts should give parents an out

Conditions could lead to a phase of increased trust mergers and acquisitions. Schools should have a say on changing…

JL Dutaut
Joe Hallgarten
Opinion: SEND

Blaming and shaming won’t help solve the SEND crisis

Stirred by over-simplified punditry, Hugh Greenway sets out the real problems dogging SEND provision – and some ideas for…

JL Dutaut
Hugh Greenway

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Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

JL Dutaut
Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

JL Dutaut
Leora Cruddas
Labour’s first year

SEND: Hope still prevails, but Labour must learn to listen

Treating the specialist and alternative sectors as afterthoughts means ministers have missed chances to progress towards a more inclusive…

JL Dutaut
Dr Nic Crossley

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

JL Dutaut
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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