Opinion: Workforce

What trust leaders say about recruitment and retention

A recent trust leaders’ roundtable drew out the key challenges and opportunities for solving this ongoing crisis

JL Dutaut
Nav Sanghara and Sufian Sadiq
Opinion: 2024 in review

Governance is key to improvement. Simples.

Last year’s challenges have been joined by a raft of new ones while the improvement potential of governance remains…

JL Dutaut
Lawayne Jefferson
Opinion: Teaching Commission
Suspensions among pupils back up during second year of pandemic but exclusions still falling

Why tackling the recruitment challenge is both vital and urgent

The evidence presented at the first meeting of the Teaching Commission is stark

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Dr Haili Hughes
Opinion: Policy

From hope to disappointment: Where is Labour’s vision for education?

Instead of a strategic vision that unites and unifies the sector, we’re getting piecemeal reform that risks levelling down…

JL Dutaut
Mohsen Ojja
Opinion: 2024 in review

Alternative Provision demand grows, but barriers persist

Alternative provision has grabbed the attention of policy makers aiming for a more inclusive system – but little has…

JL Dutaut
Charlotte Barton
The Review

Books for Christmas: Stocking fillers for every teacher

New education titles to make any teacher’s Christmas special and kick-start a new year of growth – as selected…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut
Opinion: Sustainability

How schools can finally go green in 2025

Schools are required to have sustainability leads and plans in place by next year – but support is growing…

JL Dutaut
Hannah Gains
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s plans show it gets trusts’ vital role

The provisions in the new education bill show Labour have found a new confidence to work with trusts and…

JL Dutaut
Dr Tim Coulson
Opinion: SEND

Labour must rethink its policy of managed decline for specialist provision

£740 million to increase mainstream capacity for specialist provision risks a boon to hedge funds and a disaster for…

JL Dutaut
Warren Carratt

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut
Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

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

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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