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What should I spend my pupil premium on?

The pupil premium is a wonderfully optimistic policy. But there are a few key ingredients that will help to…

Marc Rowland
Marc Rowland
Opinion

Why you should care about sibling young carers

As many as two pupils in every classroom have a sibling with special educational needs or disability and are…

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
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It’s not unusual… to have conflicts

Properly managing conflicts of interest and related party transactions is an essential part of the proper management of a…

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

What would be the benefit of a philosophy GCSE?

The answer’s easy: it would give young people the opportunity to discover the subject as a centuries-long conversation amongst…

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Expert Contributor
Opinion

Why linear A-levels will work best

Recoupling will snatch what space there is in the post-16 curriculum to teach skills that are no longer examined,…

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Expert Contributor
Opinion

Children in care educational outcomes: Public Accounts Committee round-up

Educational outcomes for children in care have been historically low. A Naional Audit Office report last year looked into…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The third member of a school’s holy trinity

School business managers are more than a finance manager or an admin officer. But exactly what their role is…

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Expert Contributor
Opinion

Rewarding luck is not a formula to beat disadvantage

The Pupil Premium Awards benefit schools that had a little more talent and a lot of luck Nobel Prize winner…

Jack Marwood
Jack Marwood
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Awards will inspire schools to turn around children’s lives

The whole point of the awards is to highlight successful approaches we didn’t even know existed Scientific evidence shows…

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There is too much to do for the Francis review to diversify the curriculum all on its own –…

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The spin around this week’s fiscal event will quickly unravel, and ministers will need to be ready with solutions…

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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,…

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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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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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