Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted: Can the sector now breathe a sigh of relief?

The government’s first steps on accountability reform are encouraging – but the road ahead is long

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Loic Menzies
Opinion: Legal

Legal: Four priorities to avoid a new ‘notice to improve’

New guidance could result in a formal notice to improve from the ESFA for failing to manage school estates….

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Lucia Glynn
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted have listened – but have they heard? 

As the sector prepares for Ofsted to report on its ‘Big Listen’ consultation, Colin Richards and Frank Norris suggest…

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Colin Richards and Frank Norris


Opinion: Solutions

Four ideas from industry to start the school term strong

Some ideas from outside of education could help us in our search for stronger engagement from and partnership with…

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Rachel Johnson
Opinion: Edtech

How we’ll support AI to reduce workload and improve outcomes

Ensuring AI delivers its educational potential safely is central to improving teachers’ lives and spreading opportunity

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Stephen Morgan MP
Opinion: Workforce

How Labour can lead a recruitment and retention revolution

The new government has made a good start, but it will take bold, innovative action to end a crisis…

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Dr Gordon Carver
Opinion: Policy

Labour must rethink schools’ whole relationship with data

The new government’s proposed school scorecard is an opportunity to model a more human approach to data and accountability

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Nic Ponsford
Opinion: Curriculum

How to turn interest in languages into a lifelong passion

Here’s how we’re bucking the national trend with an increase in the uptake of language GCSEs

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A. Blanvillain
Opinion: Curriculum

Five ways to develop classroom talk in maths

New benchmarks for oracy in maths offer ways to improve confidence, engagement and attainment by embracing collective problem-solving

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Jayne Jarvis

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

How to answer parents’ questions about dyslexia

Jamie Oliver’s new documentary is likely to spark questions from parents. These are likely to be the most common,…

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Sarah Scott
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

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

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 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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