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Speed-read: The really quite important findings of the Post-16 Inequalities Report

Earlier this week a very clear, very useful report was released. And no, it wasn’t PISA. Published on Monday,…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

Don’t abandon new mothers to maternity leave – let us keep working!

A family-friendly culture shift in schools would help to stem the teacher retention crisis and improve wellbeing for all…

Expert Contributor

Opinion

Nationality data, grammar schools – what’s the real story?

If you’re looking for good assembly material, it’s worth showing pupils the greatest music video of the Nineties: Oasis’s…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

The birth (and death) of the school health service

Everyone in England is familiar with the concept of the National Health Service. But have you heard of the…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

We’re launching a consultation on assessment in schools

Testing and assessment worry parents and teachers, although both are integral and critical to good teaching, says Rod Bristow….

Rod Bristow

Opinion

Special-school recruitment: the crisis no one is talking about

Recruitment for special schools is way tougher than in the mainstream, but there are steps that the government and…

Expert Contributor

Opinion

Should schools be doing PR and marketing?

Elin de Zoete gives basic steps in how to boost your school’s public image. It’s worth it, she says,…

Expert Contributor

Opinion

TIMSS Results? Well, at least the kids are all right. The rest of us however….

While the news headlines have been dominated by how clever (or not) England’s children were revealed to be in…

Laura McInerney

Opinion

More schooling won’t stop alt-right thinking

In light of Trump’s win and growing concerns about an “alt-right” agenda both in the States and here (for…

Laura McInerney

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut

Rebecca Maw

Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut

Cllr Zena Brabazon

Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut

Poppy Nobes

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

EXAMS

Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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

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