Opinion: Legal

Schools need greater clarity on performing social media checks

The current guidance is missing vital information, leaving schools in limbo and creating gaps in national school recruitment

JL Dutaut
Dai Durbridge
Opinion: Accountability

How to make accountability fit for purpose in a changing world

A new Forum Strategy report reveals the consensus views of trust leaders on the future of school and trust…

JL Dutaut
Nick Blackburn MBE and Sian Hampton
Opinion: Workforce
MPs want more council scrutiny of home education.

Parental leave must be about more than just maternity

Leaving fathers out from improved policies may serve short-term retention needs but doesnt’ go far enough in supporting women’s…

JL Dutaut
Emma Sheppard
Opinion

We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development

CST’s new policy advisory group will provide ‘critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for…

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Opinion: Workforce
Recruitment and retention

Retiring makes me a rarity – and that shouldn’t be the case

Sarah Ledger reflects on how the job has changed over her long career, and why those following her out…

JL Dutaut
Sarah Ledger
Opinion: Policy

Labour can’t be all talk and no action on oracy

Given that children in the lowest income group start school with language skills 19 months behind their wealthier peers…

JL Dutaut
Ayesha Baloch
Opinion

Budget 2024: Back to the future on school spending

Per-pupil funding will return to 2010 levels, but pressures on schools mean the future won’t look that different from…

Freddie Whittaker
Luke Sibieta
Opinion: Curriculum review

Labour needs to look no further in its curriculum review – a solution already exists

Everything the government wants to achieve through the Francis review is already being delivered in many of our schools

JL Dutaut
Mark Wilson
Opinion

Budget 2024: Schools must be front of the funding queue

£1.4bn pledged by the chancellor relates to the existing rebuilding programme, which will only reach around 500 schools, warns…

Freddie Whittaker
Paul Whiteman

Must Read

The Knowledge

Persistent barriers continue to limit our vital STEM potential

A new parliamentary report reveals the persistent educational barriers hampering our efforts to be the science powerhouse the prime…

JL Dutaut
Dr Lauren Sullivan MP
Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

JL Dutaut
Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

JL Dutaut
Leora Cruddas

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
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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 number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

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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