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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

Opinion: Estates

PFI: The options now and in a post-contract future

With most PFI contracts due to end within a decade, here’s what schools can do to prepare now for…

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Craig Elder

Opinion: Curriculum review

Gavin Williamson backed heads cracking down on mobile phones and announced a behaviour survey in a speech to the CST conference.

Labour’s curriculum review must hear the voices of young people

Curriculum and behaviour can’t be tackled in isolation. Fixing both requires a radical look at young people’s experiences

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Rylie Sweeney

Opinion: Curriculum

How prioritising sustainability has improved behaviour and wellbeing at our school

A focus on the outdoors and the natural world has reduced anxiety and exclusions at our school

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Becki Huth

Must Read

Labour’s first year

Six priorities for Bridget Phillipson’s second year at the helm

Labour has broadened the definition of success for schools. Here’s how it can now ensure everyone works towards this…

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Liz Robinson

Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor, 5 September 2025

Schools Week’s legendary cartoonist hangs up his pen, perceptions of behaviour diverge, and a data disaster looms

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Opinion: Accountability

How we’ll go further to ensure the consistency of our inspections

Roll-out of the new framework will be complemented by measures to ensure inspection outcomes are valid and reliable,

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Rory Gribbell and Dr Verena Braehler

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

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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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