Opinion: Policy

From good to great: Smart choices in school system reform

Tight resources mean the government must carefully prioritise in order to deliver its sweeping reform agenda

JL Dutaut
Steve Rollett
Opinion: SEND

Caseworker teams are key to SEND system improvement

Neglecting these crucial SEND workers is a key reason the system is in crisis. They deserve a workforce strategy,…

JL Dutaut
André Imich
Opinion: Policy

Government must cut our needless FSM bureaucracy

The case for automatic registration for free school meals in unarguable. Government must support the private members’ bill being…

JL Dutaut
Gemma Piper
Opinion: Policy

Government must act now to secure the future of UK science

Filling STEM teacher recruitment gaps and targeting funding at schools in poorer areas would boost the UK economy

JL Dutaut
Sureena Brackenridge MP
Opinion: Solutions

How we’re empowering teachers with high-quality assessment

Our new assessment model delivers transformative capacity for key stage 3 – and you can try it out for…

JL Dutaut
Dale Bassett
Opinion: Solutions

How to build an internal alternative provision that works

These are the key lessons I’ve learned from setting up an internal AP, from reallocating funding to creating a…

JL Dutaut
Sam Strickland
Opinion: Early Years
More than half of schools did not complete a government catch-up programme for reception children

A new definition to close the school readiness gap

A new sector-led definition of school readiness aims to help all those involved in children’s early development to work…

JL Dutaut
Felicity Gillespie
Opinion: Teaching Commission

We must address racism to solve the recruitment and retention crisis

The sector is missing out on a huge pool of talent as a result failing to tackle racism in…

JL Dutaut
Yamina Bibi
Opinion: Policy

Maintained schools are key to ending our omni-crisis

Failing to hear the voices of the maintained sector is at least partly to blame for the cluster of…

JL Dutaut
Ben Davis

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Opinion

Teachers can make English sing…or mute it with a fronted adverbial

Despite some concerns about the curriculum and assessment review, there is room for hopeful interpretation

Freddie Whittaker
Summer Turner
Opinion

Social mobility can be harmful if it means ditching your roots

Schools need to replace deficit-based narratives with approaches that celebrate belonging, dignity and identity affirmation, says Danielle Lewis-Egonu

Freddie Whittaker
Danielle Lewis-Egnou
The Business Leader

The school business leader role has evolved, but do policymakers know?

Today’s practitioners lead across finance, estates, people, digital systems, governance and organisational improvement. The language we use has not…

Freddie Whittaker
Stephen Morales

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

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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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