Opinion: Solutions

How to carry out social media checks on job applicants

Here’s how to ensure our modern hiring processes are legal and ethical – even if we can’t stop all…

JL Dutaut
Dan Morrow
Opinion: Policy

Government must square up to unscrupulous teaching agencies

Fixing recruitment will require government to face down some unprincipled players and support some dedicated staff on the margins

JL Dutaut
Baljinder Kuller
Opinion: Policy

Three reasons this week’s STRB letter is game-changing for women

Long-running campaigns have been ackowledged and action will surely follow on fair pay and conditions

JL Dutaut
Vivienne Porritt
Opinion: Policy

Finding the missing piece of the school improvement puzzle

A new research commission aims to unearth rapidly scalable insights about student engagement data – and you can be…

JL Dutaut
Jonny Sobczyk Boddington
Opinion: Solutions

Five ways for leaders to fly the flag for maths

A ‘phonics for maths’ is the right aspiration for government, but why wait to start priming teachers for a…

JL Dutaut
Susan Okereke
Opinion: Leadership

School improvement: All eyes on the OpEx prize

New ISBL research shows the few who have embedded the operational excellence approach have reaped benefits that could be…

JL Dutaut
Bethan Cullen
Opinion: Academy trusts

The benefits of a ‘try before you buy’ approach to joining a trust

Joining a trust can feel like finding a port in a storm, but rushed decisions are risky. Our new…

JL Dutaut
Mark Bryant and Neil Miller
The Knowledge

Home truths (and myths) about life skills in our curriculum

New international evidence shows England is an outlier in its approach to skills to the detriment of equity and…

JL Dutaut
Mark Boylan
Opinion: Curriculum

Some commemorations demand more than the usual assembly

The anniversary is a good time to rethink how we mark events and teach young people about the complex…

JL Dutaut
Sharon Booth

Must Read

Opinion: Edtech

AI bias poses serious risks for learners with SEND

The promise of personalised learning masks very real risks that demand careful attention from educators and policymakers

JL Dutaut
Michael Finlay
Opinion: Curriculum

What teachers want from a reformed English GCSE

The dialogue surrounding curriculum reform in England, particularly within GCSE English, remains as essential as ever.  Recent insights from…

JL Dutaut
Leandri Dannhauser
Opinion: Teaching Commission

Here’s how we can finally begin to fix the teacher supply crisis

If we’re going to hang on to more of them, then teachers need a better deal than summer respite…

JL Dutaut
Baroness Mary Bousted

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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