Opinion

Why Holocaust education matters more than ever, and how schools can lead the way

If schools step up, they can ensure that the next generation inherits not only the facts of the Holocaust…

Freddie Whittaker
Adrian Packer
Opinion

Our trust peer reviews provide lessons for upcoming legislation

Our experience could guide the blueprint for trust inspections, says Kate Chhatwal

Freddie Whittaker
Kate Chhatwal
Opinion

Ensuring trusts are fit for purpose isn’t a job you finish overnight

In a system under sustained strain, purpose-led organisations working together can create capacity, coherence and resilience that no school…

Freddie Whittaker
Gemma Lavin
Opinion
The DfE is offering schools and trusts improvement support to deal with Covid problems

Four key issues with MAT inspection for ministers to iron out

If trust inspection is to command confidence, the legislation underpinning it must be proportionate, precise and clearly aligned with…

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Opinion

How to achieve a data-driven school system

When schools choose openness they multiply, not divide, their capacity to innovate and to secure fairer outcomes for young…

Freddie Whittaker
Lauren Thorpe
Opinion

Forget speed maths, schools need teachers who learn by degrees

There’s no quick fix to fill maths vacancies, but the degree apprenticeship will provide staff who can support pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Cosette Crisan
The Legal Leader

Do you know what your pupils are viewing on school technology?

In order to protect pupils from harm, and by extension to avoid legal action, schools should urgently reflect on…

Freddie Whittaker
Ane Vernon
Opinion

Seven communications tips to reset relationships with parents

New guidance is welcome, but we need to address a root cause sitting beneath policy and process

Freddie Whittaker
Tiffany Beck
Opinion

Our game of guess the Ofsted grade was more baffling than we’d hoped

How do pupils ‘thrive’ in a school where curriculum and teaching aren’t rated as ‘strong’?

Freddie Whittaker
Adrian Lyons

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Teaching apprenticeships offer the continuity children crave

Predictable adults support predictable lessons, which lowers anxiety and increases engagement

Freddie Whittaker
Luke Dootson and Jackie Barbera
Opinion

The gulf between ambition and reality on curriculum reform 

The wind of change is blowing in education. The question is whether teachers and leaders will be energised by…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Mary Bousted
Opinion

Siloed trusts are the elephant in the room on inclusion

We need a national expectation that compels partnership, aligns accountability and reconnects the fragments of our system

Freddie Whittaker
James Stuart

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

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

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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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