Manifesto 2024

Four policies for a long-term transformation of the SEND system

It will take time, money and leadership, but we need a vision and a plan to ensure specialist provision…

JL Dutaut
Tom Rees
Manifesto 2024

Three policies to get the SEND system working better now

Vulnerable learners who need consistency and routine deserve a political and funding climate that is fair and stable

JL Dutaut
Dr Nic Crossley
Opinion: Policy

The next government will inherit a mixed legacy and pressing challenges

A mix of stubborn problems and emerging new ones should make parties’ plans for the most diasdvantaged pupils a…

JL Dutaut
Imran Tahir
The Research Leader

Instilling a joy of reading is key to closing the attainment gap

Understanding what texts young people are engaging with is key to tackling a post-pandemic decline in reading activity

JL Dutaut
Crispin Chatterton and Natalie Perera
Opinion

How we’ve centralised curriculum design to improve teaching

Reducing workload and improving teaching are priorities for our trust – but we must achieve these in balance with…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Tim Mills
Opinion

Let’s have a better debate on the role of private schools

Whether it’s genuine confusion or political point-scoring, misinformation around Labour’s private schools policy means we’re not properly valuing cross-sector…

Freddie Whittaker
John Smith
Opinion: Sustainability

Greener special schools are within reach – it’s just a matter of approach  

How can we combine efforts to ramp up special school capacity with our net zero ambiutions for the sector?

JL Dutaut
Dan Allison
Opinion: Academy trusts

Four barriers to scalable growth – and how to overcome them

Academy trust growth is back on the agenda, so here are some lessons from failures of the past as…

JL Dutaut
Michael Pain
Election 2024

Election 2024: The rise of the comprehensive kids?

The educational background of a potential Labour administration would look very different to what we’re used to, writes Ed…

Freddie Whittaker
Ed Dorrell

Must Read

Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton
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

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

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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