Opinion: Curriculum review

Listening to teachers is key to the curriculum review’s success

Our work with schools shows the value and importance of making teachers partners in curriculum development

JL Dutaut
Dr Victoria Cook
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted: Can the sector now breathe a sigh of relief?

The government’s first steps on accountability reform are encouraging – but the road ahead is long

JL Dutaut
Loic Menzies
The Legal Leader

Legal: Four priorities to avoid a new ‘notice to improve’

New guidance could result in a formal notice to improve from the ESFA for failing to manage school estates….

JL Dutaut
Lucia Glynn
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted have listened – but have they heard? 

As the sector prepares for Ofsted to report on its ‘Big Listen’ consultation, Colin Richards and Frank Norris suggest…

JL Dutaut
Colin Richards and Frank Norris
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…

JL Dutaut
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

JL Dutaut
Stephen Morgan MP
Opinion: Workforce
Recruitment and retention

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…

JL Dutaut
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

JL Dutaut
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

JL Dutaut
A. Blanvillain

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Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos
Opinion

What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting our own high expectations, then we welcome it with…

Freddie Whittaker
Andrew Rigby
Opinion

We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools 

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Herminder Channa

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

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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