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Women need to get even – let’s ban men from school names

Is anyone bored of hearing the ways women are disadvantaged in education? I am. Commentators like me bang on…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

How to be an LGBT+ ally in schools

Posters on walls in schools don’t cut it – it’s how teachers and school leaders deal with specific incidents…

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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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Opinion

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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Opinion: Leadership

How we’re modelling a new kind of civic leaderhip in Sunderland

A new grouping of the city’s schools, employers and charities hopes to show what’s possible when communities work together

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Opinion: Leadership

Our challenging times demand a new model of local leadership

Today’s challenges demand that we see ourselves not just as leaders in a locality but as leaders of that…

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Nicole Reid and Jill Messham

Opinion: Workforce

An equality blind spot is fuelling our retention problems

Staff inclusion work rightly focuses on breaking down the barriers we can see, but it’s also our job as…

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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

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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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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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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

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