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Opinion: Curriculum review

Ten principles to guide Labour’s review of assessment

Understanding the strengths and flaws of the last round of assessment reforms should guide the new review away from…

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Amanda Spielman

Opinion: Curriculum review

Labour’s curriculum review: What can be learned from last time?

Some experience-informed do’s and don’ts from the DfE’s former director of curriculum and behaviour

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David Russell

Opinion: Workforce

The Education Committee has heard from a panel of experts on how to solve specialist teacher shortages

No drama: How Labour can deliver 6,500 extra teachers

These small but meaningful changes are more likely to realise the new government’s ambition than an advertising campaign

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Jane Fletcher

Opinion: Solutions

A study will look at the Covid legacy for Year 11 pupils.

Six do’s and don’ts to support autistic children with friendships

To mark Friendship Day, here are some tips to support young people with autism to build meaningful social connections

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Jo Galloway

Oracy Commission

Oracy must be inclusive by design for our diverse children

Labour’s plans for oracy education must be implemented with widespread communication needs as a starting point

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Caroline Wright and Louisa Reeves

Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted has rated a school good after overturning its recent inadequate judgment

Labour must go further to truly rebuild faith in Ofsted

Removing one-word judgments may take some of the heat out of inspection, but that alone won’t make the process…

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Sir Alan Wood

Opinion: Workforce

We should listen to teachers on pension flexibility

United Learning and teachers’ unions have collided over an alternative pension plan – but what do teachers themselves think?

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James Zuccollo

Opinion: Leadership

Five ways to make complaints a part of school improvement

We must get beyond the blame game if we’re ever going to learn the real lessons of rising complaints

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Barney Angliss

The Legal Leader

How schools should work within new guidance to improve attendance

A raft of legal and regulatory changes to tackle worsening attendance will require new ways of working to avoid…

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Esther Maxwell

Must Read

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

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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…

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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…

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Poppy Nobes

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

John Dickens

2mo

Sam Sykes

2mo

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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