SEND

This parliament is our best hope of SEND reform in a generation

The government is determined to fix our ‘lose, lose, lose’ SEND system – and this parliament has the knowledge…

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David Baines
Solutions

Solutions: Maximising your teaching assistants team

To mark National Teaching Assistants’ Day, Angus Weir explains how his Birmingham academy has embraced their talents – with…

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Angus Weir
Labour party conference

The conference mood was wintry – but brighter days are ahead

Gloomy delegates had hoped for gifts under the money tree, but enough rabbits came out of the hat to…

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell
Careers Education

Engineering solutions to the careers education gap

A new report reveals a worrying lack of capacity to connect young people with the careers that could be…

JL Dutaut
Eleanor Eyre
CPD

Labour will need to tackle education’s shameful secret

A teacher training entitlement will achieve nothing unless ministers address the elephant in the teacher training room

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Josh Goodrich
SEND

How ‘twinning’ could help us out of the SEND crisis

With no financial cavalry on the horizon, some schools are leading the charge in making mainstream settings more inclusive

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Roy Blatchford CBE
Solutions

Solutions: Seven essential steps for rebranding a trust

Far from a vanity project, rebranding is an opportunity to rethink your organisation from its core values out

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Unity Jones
Policy

Labour’s post-16 pause and review leaves settings in a tricky position

We all want the best vocational pathways for our students, but implementation is as important as design in getting…

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Caroline Doherty
The Knowledge

The Knowledge. How can Labour ensure oracy delivers on its promise? 

New Sutton Trust research reveals variation in schools’ approaches and a lack of evidence on how best to maximise…

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Rebecca Montacute

Must Read

Curriculum

Let’s acknowledge the cost of our knowledge-rich ambition

Nick Gibb is unrepentant, but his vision has hollowed out the curriculum, educational experience and the very definition of…

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Bernard Andrews
Leadership

Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership

To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it

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Nicola Noble and Liz Robinson
Social mobility

Understanding the childhood origins of social mobility

How disadvantage translates to poorer outcomes is more complex than sometimes portrayed, reveals our new report

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Rob Wilson

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,…

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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

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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,…

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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…

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Stephen Caldwell
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