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
Opinion: SEND

This parliament is our best hope of SEND reform in a generation

The government is determined to fix our ‘lose, lose, lose’ SEND system – and this parliament has the knowledge…

JL Dutaut
David Baines
Opinion: Solutions

Maximising your teaching assistants team

To mark National Teaching Assistants’ Day, Angus Weir explains how his Birmingham academy has embraced their talents – with…

JL Dutaut
Angus Weir
Opinion: Politics

The conference mood was wintry – but brighter days are ahead

Gloomy delegates had hoped for gifts under the money tree, but enough rabbits came out of the hat to…

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Curriculum

Engineering solutions to the careers education gap

A new report reveals a worrying lack of capacity to connect young people with the careers that could be…

JL Dutaut
Eleanor Eyre
Opinion: Workforce

Labour will need to tackle education’s shameful secret

A teacher training entitlement will achieve nothing unless ministers address the elephant in the teacher training room

JL Dutaut
Josh Goodrich
Opinion: SEND

How ‘twinning’ could help us out of the SEND crisis

With no financial cavalry on the horizon, some schools are leading the charge in making mainstream settings more inclusive

JL Dutaut
Roy Blatchford CBE
Opinion: Solutions

Seven essential steps for rebranding a trust

Far from a vanity project, rebranding is an opportunity to rethink your organisation from its core values out

JL Dutaut
Unity Jones
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s post-16 pause and review leaves settings in a tricky position

We all want the best vocational pathways for our students, but implementation is as important as design in getting…

JL Dutaut
Caroline Doherty

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Opinion

Big tech AI marketing rewrites the future of education 

If we passively consume and believe big tech’s vision for AI we’ll be tricked into ceding control of our…

Freddie Whittaker
Catherine Buckler
Opinion

Nigel de Gruchy, the teachers’ champion who savaged with a soundbite

The former trade union leader has died at the age of 82. One of his successors, Dr Patrick Roach,…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Patrick Roach
Opinion

Education starts at home, so we bought 20 of them for families

Short-term lets and instability wreck a child’s likelihood of succeeding academically – we cannot ignore what goes on outside…

Freddie Whittaker
John Barneby

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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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