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Historians make the best superheads. Ugh.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them. And if you…

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Should the new College of Teaching receive state financial aid?

Recent archival research at the school of education, University of Adelaide, and at UCL, Institute of Education, London reveals…

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The social capital of a private education

Privately educated pupils earn more – but they also get better “quality” jobs. Why is that, ask Anna Vignoles…

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Is race the elephant in the staffroom?

Men at the recent WomenEd conference admitted they were scared to talk about gender. Are white people just as…

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Making school leadership more accessible to women

For the first time we have a woman prime minister, home secretary and education secretary in office at the…

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Inclusion supporters need a winning way with words

Choose the words you use in the battle against selection with care, says Anita Kerwin-Nye, as they can frame…

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How can schools best help ‘vulnerable’ children?

Research corner with Michael Jopling, professor in education a Northumbria University. What have you been working on? We’ve been…

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Let’s subvert the ‘centres of excellence’ policy

Following Schools Week’s revelation that the government will allow MATs internally to select pupils by ability, Ros McMullen suggests…

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Reputation matters: How to do PR as a school

Issues management should be as much a part of forward planning in schools and trusts as the annual prospectus,…

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