Opinion: Policy
School meals

FSM reform is critical to reviving social mobility

A bill is moving through parliament that could significantly improve children’s lives and schools’ budgets

JL Dutaut
Jon Datta
Opinion

Balancing accountabilities: Whose scorecard is it anyway?

A trusted profession can deliver its own balanced scorecard for accountability better than an inspectorate. Teaching wouldn’t be the…

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Emma Knights
The Knowledge

What can schools do to deliver Labour’s youth guarantee?

The government has just made a very strong case for investing in much-improved careers education. Our report shows how…

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Oli De Botton
Opinion

Breakfast club policy must learn the hard lessons of the NTP

A new report sheds light on where the national tutoring programme went wrong and offers salient lessons for Labour’s…

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Anne-Marie Canning
Opinion: Workforce
The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

Labour must support leaders to improve retention

Regional heat-maps would allow school leaders and policy makers to better respond to local recruitment and retention needs

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Michael McCarthy
The Knowledge

Early years nutrition is vital in addressing educational inequalities

A new report by EPI reveals inequalities that start long before school and affect educational trajectories – and how…

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Dr Kerris Cooper
Opinion: Curriculum

Nothing trumps political engagement for personal development

A trip to Washington, D.C. to engage in the election changed our group’s aspirations and self-belief. We need more…

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Kavya Khatri
Opinion: Accountability

The five W’s of developing your equality and diversity charter

This student-led document now sets out everyone’s responsibilities to ensure all our schools support equality and celebrate diversity

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Janet Sheriff OBE
Opinion: Solutions

Six ways to heal the SEND system from within – now

All the political pontificating is holding back improvement. Here’s what we could do now if those on the ground…

JL Dutaut
Tom Legge

Must Read

Opinion: Workforce

An equality blind spot is fuelling our retention problems

Staff inclusion work rightly focuses on breaking down the barriers we can see, but it’s also our job as…

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Bridget Harrison
Opinion: Curriculum review

Year 6 can’t keep paying the price of data farming

The best thing the curriculum review can do to re-engage pupils is to rethink the incentives driving an impoverished…

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James Searjeant
Opinion: Solutions
A new Ofsted research report looks at effective practice for secondary school pupils struggling with reading

How to make your school library a truly inclusive space

Your school library can be a powerhouse of support and a hub of belonging for every pupil in the…

JL Dutaut
Victoria Dilly

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

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

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
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,…

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James Handscombe
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