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How to make teacher training more attractive

Many subjects devalued by Progress 8 are undersubscribed in this year’s training intake. To boost recruitment, Oliver Beach suggests,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Break a habit and tap the potential of key stage 3

In a week when primary tests are dominating the headlines, Ed Cadwallader asks what happens to the “wasted years”…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Skills or knowledge: which is more important?

Skills and knowledge are often viewed as separate ingredients of the learning cake, like eggs and flour, added in different…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Will small schools be able to breathe a big sigh of relief?

In a week of big news – threatened strikes, parent boycotts, backbenchers shouting about academies – there has been…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Why effective heads don’t need to have been teachers

Too many headteachers are nearing retirement with too few to take their place. But there are plenty of highly…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Opinion

The motorway model of mental health risks

What have you been working on? We’re interested in the characteristics of schools linked to pupil mental health risks…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

A lack of fluent thinking

There are not enough teachers to teach the mandatory Ebacc modern foreign language. In the spirit of détente, Leora…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

How a charity can be effective

Philanthropists like giving to schools, says Angela Kail. But if the school system in England was ever straightforward for…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

A jobs board distracts from the teacher shortage

Patrick Hayes is stumped by the government’s “slightly odd u-turn” on a national teaching website. It’s been tried before…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips

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Forget the buzzword bingo, here’s how schools can get belonging right

Children show us belonging is simple. If we see them, hear them, know them and accept them for who…

Freddie Whittaker
Anthony Benedict
Opinion

Intentional design: What stewardship of the school system really demands

A mature school system should allow for specialisation without stigma and for divestment without failure narratives, writes Becks Boomer-Clark

Freddie Whittaker
Becks Boomer-Clark
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Lessons for England on using AI to boost attendance

As schools here are given an AI-generated target for attendance, one Welsh head explains how his school has used…

Freddie Whittaker
Huw Powell

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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
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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

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University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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Sam Sykes
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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,…

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James Handscombe
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