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Year in review: a headteacher’s perspective on 2015

It’s all very different from the Michael Gove years (and they weren’t great), with layers of “extra things” now…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

Year in review: A school business manager’s perspective on 2015

The pace of change has made it a tough year for schools, academies and their business managers. But it…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

Teaching is more than delivering the curriculum

Children do not become educated through the learning of facts; they need to absorb and own the value of…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

Have yourself a mellow little Christmas – by not taking marking home

The Christmas break is not a time to catch up on school tasks; leave them all at the school…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

Reality bites: What school crises should teach Gibb

When Michael Merrick, a teacher at Cardinal Newman, shared pictures of his flood-devastated school, it was a sharp reminder…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

There will be 1 million more pupils by 2024 – but here’s why we won’t have enough teachers

As pupil numbers rise, schools say they are perilously short of teachers – Kevin Courtney explains why. Much is…

Nick Linford

Opinion

Mental health support for young people should be a priority

Mental illness affects about one in four people: that means six pupils in a class of 24. And yet…

Nicky Phillips

Opinion

How I had a fight in the name of social justice

Forget your pedagogical differences: teachers need to speak up about how a reduction of services to alleviate poverty is the real…

Kiran Gill

Opinion

The overriding strength of the Cambridge history PGCE

Last week the Cambridge history PGCE almost disappeared in a puff of neo-liberal neglect. Its stay of execution is…

Nicky Phillips

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

JL Dutaut

18h

Michael Fordham

18h

Opinion: Workforce

We’re backing teachers because we have a job to do together

Today’s investment is a clear sign of the government’s commitment to partnership in delivering high and rising standards for…

JL Dutaut

Bridget Phillipson

Opinion: Legal

Legal: How to manage restructuring, redundancies and industrial action

With more budget cuts on the horizon, here are some answers to the questions leaders ask us most about…

JL Dutaut

Sarah Linden

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

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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