Opinion: Estates

PFI: The options now and in a post-contract future

With most PFI contracts due to end within a decade, here’s what schools can do to prepare now for…

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Craig Elder
Opinion: Curriculum review
Gavin Williamson backed heads cracking down on mobile phones and announced a behaviour survey in a speech to the CST conference.

Labour’s curriculum review must hear the voices of young people

Curriculum and behaviour can’t be tackled in isolation. Fixing both requires a radical look at young people’s experiences

JL Dutaut
Rylie Sweeney
Opinion: Curriculum

How prioritising sustainability has improved behaviour and wellbeing at our school

A focus on the outdoors and the natural world has reduced anxiety and exclusions at our school

JL Dutaut
Becki Huth
Opinion: Legal

How schools should protect pupils’ privacy around CCTV use

Surveillance cameras can serve various positive purposes and be welcome by parents and pupils provided their use is safe…

JL Dutaut
Gemma Duxbury
Opinion: Curriculum

After the riots: The role of schools in healing our communities

Let’s focus ours and our pupils’ attention on the good of the past few days and resist fatalism

JL Dutaut
Sir (Mufti) Hamid Patel
Opinion: Legal

Facial recognition technology: What schools need to know before implementation

One school’s ICO reprimand for use of facial recognistion is every school’s warning to heed regulations before implementing biometrics

JL Dutaut
Dai Dubridge
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s opportunity mission hinges on partnership with the youth sector

The government should leverage expertise and capacity in the youth sector to complement what schools offer

JL Dutaut
Harris Bokhari and Baroness Grey-Thompson DBE
Oracy Commission

Should we insist on ‘Standard English’ in schools?

A recent panel discussion demonstrated a range of views on this issue – and an all-important willingness to listen…

JL Dutaut
Arlene Holmes-Henderson
The Knowledge

Is online professional development better than in-person?

The teaching profession is in wide agreement about the importance and potential of professional development. The school calendar has…

JL Dutaut
Dr Ourania Maria Ventista and C.J. Rauch

Must Read

Opinion: Accountability

How Ofsted can ensure inclusion and equity go hand in hand

Ofsted must ensure its new framework for inclusion is applied consistently and fairly in every school

JL Dutaut
Lee Elliot Major
The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

JL Dutaut
Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

JL Dutaut
Andrew O’Neill

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

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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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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