Opinion: Accountability

Mapping the minefield between Labour and the ‘balanced report card’  

Delivering a ‘balanced report card’ requires Labour to walk a path beset by tricky decisions while carrying a wounded…

JL Dutaut
Professor Colin Richards and Frank Norris
Opinion: Policy

Why RISE teams could be this government’s biggest educational legacy

A policy that picks up on the lasting impact of the London Challenge and the best MATs is good…

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell
The Legal Leader

Schools need greater clarity on performing social media checks

The current guidance is missing vital information, leaving schools in limbo and creating gaps in national school recruitment

JL Dutaut
Dai Durbridge
Opinion: Accountability

How to make accountability fit for purpose in a changing world

A new Forum Strategy report reveals the consensus views of trust leaders on the future of school and trust…

JL Dutaut
Nick Blackburn MBE and Sian Hampton
Opinion: Workforce
MPs want more council scrutiny of home education.

Parental leave must be about more than just maternity

Leaving fathers out from improved policies may serve short-term retention needs but doesnt’ go far enough in supporting women’s…

JL Dutaut
Emma Sheppard
Opinion

We’re putting trust leaders at the heart of policy development

CST’s new policy advisory group will provide ‘critical, front-line perspectives that will help to shape the policy landscape for…

Freddie Whittaker
Steve Rollett
Opinion: Workforce
Recruitment and retention

Retiring makes me a rarity – and that shouldn’t be the case

Sarah Ledger reflects on how the job has changed over her long career, and why those following her out…

JL Dutaut
Sarah Ledger
Opinion: Policy

Labour can’t be all talk and no action on oracy

Given that children in the lowest income group start school with language skills 19 months behind their wealthier peers…

JL Dutaut
Ayesha Baloch
Opinion

Budget 2024: Back to the future on school spending

Per-pupil funding will return to 2010 levels, but pressures on schools mean the future won’t look that different from…

Freddie Whittaker
Luke Sibieta

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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

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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

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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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