Opinion

Teachers need the time to get out more

Excessive workloads are preventing teachers from spending time on activities that would make them better at their jobs Education…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Can ‘apps’ help schools communicate better?

There are encouraging signs that the new education secretary is interested in the potential of technology to improve learning…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Liberal Democrat Party conference preview

Each week during the political conference season we will be inviting a commentator to give their views on what…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


Opinion

“Nicky Morgan & The Narrative of Success (If Few Policies)”: Day Two Conservative Conference Round-Up

Labelling new education secretary, Nicky Morgan, as ‘continuity Gove’, initially seemed a smart move by Labour. But her Conservative…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Morgan’s Priorities & No-Thunder Boles: Day One Round-Up of Conservative Conference

The prevailing view among political commentators is that education isn’t a major issue for this election. If that’s true,…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Heading up a board is serious business

Headteacher boards, the first attempt to move power to the regions, deserve the support of school leaders eadteacher boards…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Federations should not be swept under the MAT

Multi-academy trusts are on everybody’s lips, but don’t dismiss the federation option In an era of increasing school autonomy…

Emma Knights
Emma Knights
Opinion

The advantages of scale

Having co-authored a new report suggesting performance would improve if the government let every primary school spin out from…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Right Angles: More than one angle on wearing the niqab

A student sent home for flouting uniform code is not exactly a hard-hitting story. But in a case this…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips

Must Read

Opinion: Curriculum

Reading aloud: How we’re tackling the literacy gap

As figures reveal a ‘dispiriting’ drop in reading for pleasure and literacy gaps persist, we are taking a trust-wide…

JL Dutaut
Richard Tutt
Opinion: Workforce

How to make flexible working work for your school

As the sector moves inexorably towards offer more flexible working opportunities, here are some tried-and-tested approaches and their benefits

JL Dutaut
Ashleigh Briggs
Opinion: Policy

The cost of our dysfunctional school meals system

More and more families are getting in debt to their schools to feed their children, reveals a new survey

JL Dutaut
Georgina Burt

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

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 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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