Opinion: Curriculum review

Three concerns about the curriculum and assessment review

Flaws in the review’s terms of reference mean a(nother) opportunity to deal with the perennial issue of curriculum overload…

JL Dutaut
Joe Hallgarten
Opinion: Admissions

How fair banding makes us more inclusive – not less

While some decry ‘selection by stealth’, fair banding assessments have in fact earned us an award for our admissions…

JL Dutaut
Michael Gosling
Opinion: SEND

The SEND system is not broken. It’s doing its job 

The history of our SEND system shows our priority should not be to fix it but to create a…

JL Dutaut
Professor Sally Tomlinson
Opinion: Legal

Legal: How will the employment rights bill affect schools?

There’s a long way to go before these proposals make it onto the statute books, but schools can already…

JL Dutaut
Craig Vincent
Opinion: SEND
Most schools have taken at least one measure to reduce spending in the last year, a new survey shows

Cutting minimum funding to plug high needs deficits is wrong

Top-slicing school budgets to fill councils’ high needs black hole is already a go-to. Government must rethink backing the…

JL Dutaut
Caroline Derbyshire
The Curriculum Conversation

What a national curriculum can and cannot do

Looking back over 35 years of the national curriculum, here’s what the Francis review can do to achieve where…

JL Dutaut
Christine Counsell
The Knowledge

What does employee engagement tell us about retention?

Our findings show that when teachers become more emotionally engaged with their colleagues over the course of an academic…

JL Dutaut
John Jerrim
Opinion: Policy

How government can balance experience and innovation

As the Forrest Gump of education, here’s what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking…

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
The Knowledge

Assumed knowledge: A hidden barrier to social mobility

Knowledge of ‘how the system works’ stacks opportunity in favour of the most well-off. New analysis reveals how the…

JL Dutaut
Nick Brook

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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