Opinion

Balancing accountabilities: Whose scorecard is it anyway?

A trusted profession can deliver its own balanced scorecard for accountability better than an inspectorate. Teaching wouldn’t be the…

JL Dutaut
Emma Knights
The Knowledge

What can schools do to deliver Labour’s youth guarantee?

The government has just made a very strong case for investing in much-improved careers education. Our report shows how…

JL Dutaut
Oli De Botton
Opinion

Breakfast club policy must learn the hard lessons of the NTP

A new report sheds light on where the national tutoring programme went wrong and offers salient lessons for Labour’s…

JL Dutaut
Anne-Marie Canning
Opinion: Workforce
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Labour must support leaders to improve retention

Regional heat-maps would allow school leaders and policy makers to better respond to local recruitment and retention needs

JL Dutaut
Michael McCarthy
The Knowledge

Early years nutrition is vital in addressing educational inequalities

A new report by EPI reveals inequalities that start long before school and affect educational trajectories – and how…

JL Dutaut
Dr Kerris Cooper
Opinion: Curriculum

Nothing trumps political engagement for personal development

A trip to Washington, D.C. to engage in the election changed our group’s aspirations and self-belief. We need more…

JL Dutaut
Kavya Khatri
Opinion: Accountability

The five W’s of developing your equality and diversity charter

This student-led document now sets out everyone’s responsibilities to ensure all our schools support equality and celebrate diversity

JL Dutaut
Janet Sheriff OBE
Opinion: Solutions

Six ways to heal the SEND system from within – now

All the political pontificating is holding back improvement. Here’s what we could do now if those on the ground…

JL Dutaut
Tom Legge
Opinion: Curriculum

More oracy must not come at the expense of wider literacy

The idea of oracy as a ‘fourth R’ is superficially appealing, but in the end speaking can’t be treated…

JL Dutaut
Claire Heald

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Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

JL Dutaut
Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

JL Dutaut
Leora Cruddas
Labour’s first year

SEND: Hope still prevails, but Labour must learn to listen

Treating the specialist and alternative sectors as afterthoughts means ministers have missed chances to progress towards a more inclusive…

JL Dutaut
Dr Nic Crossley

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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