Opinion: Solutions

Maximising your teaching assistants team

To mark National Teaching Assistants’ Day, Angus Weir explains how his Birmingham academy has embraced their talents – with…

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Angus Weir
Opinion: Politics

The conference mood was wintry – but brighter days are ahead

Gloomy delegates had hoped for gifts under the money tree, but enough rabbits came out of the hat to…

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Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Curriculum

Engineering solutions to the careers education gap

A new report reveals a worrying lack of capacity to connect young people with the careers that could be…

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Eleanor Eyre
Opinion: Workforce

Labour will need to tackle education’s shameful secret

A teacher training entitlement will achieve nothing unless ministers address the elephant in the teacher training room

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Josh Goodrich
Opinion: SEND

How ‘twinning’ could help us out of the SEND crisis

With no financial cavalry on the horizon, some schools are leading the charge in making mainstream settings more inclusive

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Roy Blatchford CBE
Opinion: Solutions

Seven essential steps for rebranding a trust

Far from a vanity project, rebranding is an opportunity to rethink your organisation from its core values out

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Unity Jones
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s post-16 pause and review leaves settings in a tricky position

We all want the best vocational pathways for our students, but implementation is as important as design in getting…

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Caroline Doherty
The Knowledge

How can Labour ensure oracy delivers on its promise? 

New Sutton Trust research reveals variation in schools’ approaches and a lack of evidence on how best to maximise…

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Rebecca Montacute
Opinion: Workforce

What baseball can teach us about recruitment and retention

The story of how baseball player recruitment was transformed holds important lessons for getting out of our teacher supply…

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Raj Chande

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…

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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…

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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,…

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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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