Opinion: Policy

Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership

To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it

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Nicola Noble and Liz Robinson
The Knowledge

Understanding the childhood origins of social mobility

How disadvantage translates to poorer outcomes is more complex than sometimes portrayed, reveals our new report

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Rob Wilson
Opinion: Curriculum review

Unfinished business: Tim Brighouse, the curriculum review and me

Sir Tim Brighouse’s long-time friend and colleague Mick Waters reflects on what the educational giant would have said to…

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Mick Waters
The Knowledge

What new data tells us about hours spent at school

Our new report delves for the first time on the length of the school week in schools across the…

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Oana Gavriloiu and Louis Hodge
Oracy Commission

Oracy must become as essential as literacy or numeracy

The oracy commission’s final report calls for oracy to become the ‘fourth R’ of modern education’s emancipatory missions

JL Dutaut
Geoff Barton
The Knowledge

What’s next for ‘evidence-informed’ education?

‘Evidence-informed’ has become an easy and often empty marketing tag for CPD providers. Here’s how we guard against its…

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Harry Madgwick
The Knowledge

NTP: What we’ve learned – and haven’t – about tutoring’s impact

The way the National Tutoring Programme was evaluated left little scope to determine its impact, but that shouldn’t put…

JL Dutaut
Dr Ben Styles
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment: Teaching’s narrative universe needs a reboot

Teaching has an image problem and fixing it must be a top priority for the government and the sector…

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Tiffany Beck
Opinion: Solutions

How to carry out social media checks on job applicants

Here’s how to ensure our modern hiring processes are legal and ethical – even if we can’t stop all…

JL Dutaut
Dan Morrow

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

The schools bill must do more to support displaced children

Labour’s bill promises to deliver needed change for children not in school, but without amendments one vulnerable group could…

JL Dutaut
Diana Sutton
Opinion: Curriculum

AI should be the making of coursework – not its breaking

The argument that AI spells the end of coursework is short-sighted and ignores opportunities to improve processes and enrich…

JL Dutaut
Mark Grogan
The Knowledge

Is trust centralisation delivering its promises to staff

New research delves into how staff are experiencing the promised benefits of pooled resources and networked development

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Elizabeth Robinson

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,…

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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

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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…

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Stephen Caldwell
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