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Put the students’ interests at your school’s core

Social mobility is something that all educators aim for, but there are things that you need to consider first…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Is the teacher shortage real?

One question has plagued the Schools Week office for months: how can every school leader say they are battling…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Advancing with the tsars

Since Nicky Morgan took the office of education secretary she has appointed several experts, lovingly named tsars by the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Changes in the Financial Handbook for Academies

The focus this year is on transparency, with the 2015 handbook seeking to bring in new rules to ensure…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

How to switch to a cloud-based ICT system

The academies programme has shaken up schools’ traditional support systems, particularly in ICT. However, this reorganisation has created opportunities…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Jeremy Corbyn: What does his Labour leadership mean for teachers?

There are those that cheer and those that look on stonily. But Jeremy Corbyn could provide the strong opposition…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

New behaviour panel has more people called John than women

Last weekend, there was much criticism of gender representation in the shadow cabinet. Meanwhile, I was getting worked up…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
Opinion

What has happened to the teacher workload groups?

Few teachers answered the series of questions in the DfE’s workload challenge on “unnecessary and unproductive tasks”. But apathy…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Six lessons for leaders

It is hugely rewarding to become a chief executive of a trust. Having established the first hard federation in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

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The deeply flawed ITT reforms are a threat to sustainable teacher supply for purely ideological purposes, writes David Spendlove

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