Opinion: Solutions
A study will look at the Covid legacy for Year 11 pupils.

Six do’s and don’ts to support autistic children with friendships

To mark Friendship Day, here are some tips to support young people with autism to build meaningful social connections

JL Dutaut
Jo Galloway
Oracy Commission

Oracy must be inclusive by design for our diverse children

Labour’s plans for oracy education must be implemented with widespread communication needs as a starting point

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Caroline Wright and Louisa Reeves
Opinion: Accountability
Ofsted has rated a school good after overturning its recent inadequate judgment

Labour must go further to truly rebuild faith in Ofsted

Removing one-word judgments may take some of the heat out of inspection, but that alone won’t make the process…

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Sir Alan Wood
Opinion: Workforce

We should listen to teachers on pension flexibility

United Learning and teachers’ unions have collided over an alternative pension plan – but what do teachers themselves think?

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James Zuccollo
Opinion: Leadership

Five ways to make complaints a part of school improvement

We must get beyond the blame game if we’re ever going to learn the real lessons of rising complaints

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Barney Angliss
Opinion: Legal

How schools should work within new guidance to improve attendance

A raft of legal and regulatory changes to tackle worsening attendance will require new ways of working to avoid…

JL Dutaut
Esther Maxwell
Opinion: Policy

Labour must put sustainability at the heart of its opportunity mission

A promised curriculum review must ensure what results is equal to the challenge of adapting to climate change and…

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Steve Brace
Opinion: Policy

Labour already has the ‘keys to success’ to tackle disadvantage gaps

We already have the urgent answer we need to close the disadvantage gap, so let’s not wasted time re-inventing…

JL Dutaut
Mike Ion
Opinion: Policy

Why we need an ambitious ‘net zero’ target for attendance 

A moonshot goal to see every child in school and ready to learn by 2050 could galvanise society to…

JL Dutaut
Jaine Stannard

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,…

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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,…

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…

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Stephen Caldwell
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