Opinion: Curriculum review

The Francis Review must usher in the age of digital assessment

We can’t wait for a digital big bang. We must keep making incremental progress to maximise its potential for…

JL Dutaut
Colin Hughes
Opinion: Solutions

How to get parents on board with your behaviour policy

Aligning policy and parental expectations is vital in ensuring a behaviour policy is well supported at home and ultimately…

JL Dutaut
Paul Dix
Opinion: Curriculum

We can start creating a broader curriculum without a review

A broader, more creative curriculum doesn’t have to wait until the curriculum review has reported and its recommendations are…

JL Dutaut
Sharon Hague
Opinion: Curriculum review

Three concerns about the curriculum and assessment review

Flaws in the review’s terms of reference mean a(nother) opportunity to deal with the perennial issue of curriculum overload…

JL Dutaut
Joe Hallgarten
Opinion: Admissions

How fair banding makes us more inclusive – not less

While some decry ‘selection by stealth’, fair banding assessments have in fact earned us an award for our admissions…

JL Dutaut
Michael Gosling
Opinion: SEND

The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job 

The history of our SEND system shows our priority should not be to fix it but to create a…

JL Dutaut
Professor Sally Tomlinson
Opinion: Legal

Legal: How will the employment rights bill affect schools?

There’s a long way to go before these proposals make it onto the statute books, but schools can already…

JL Dutaut
Craig Vincent
Opinion: SEND
Most schools have taken at least one measure to reduce spending in the last year, a new survey shows

Cutting minimum funding to plug high needs deficits is wrong

Top-slicing school budgets to fill councils’ high needs black hole is already a go-to. Government must rethink backing the…

JL Dutaut
Caroline Derbyshire
The Curriculum Conversation

What a national curriculum can and cannot do

Looking back over 35 years of the national curriculum, here’s what the Francis review can do to achieve where…

JL Dutaut
Christine Counsell

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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
Michael Fordham
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

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

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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