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Opinion: Policy

Funding teacher development must continue – whoever is in charge

A broad consensus among the profession for continued investment in the ‘golden thread’ must be reflected among political decision-makers

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David Weston and Gareth Conyard

Opinion: Policy

We must end the 30-year silence about boys’ underperformance

Boys have been at the wrong end of a gender attainment gap for three decades and it is time…

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Nick Fletcher MP

The Knowledge

Can teaching through languages improve overall outcomes?

A new longitudinal study shows teaching subjects in foreign languages could benefit all learners

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Judith Woodfield

Opinion: Attendance

Covid has broken the old habit of going to school

What lessons can we learn from the past about driving attendance up?

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Daisy Christodoulou

Opinion: Curriculum

We must make space for applied learning in the curriculum

We have over-balanced education towards academic learning to the detriment of vital skills

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Justine Greening

Opinion: Accountability

Reforming accountability hinges on lowering the stakes

We won’t fix inspection until we reform the consequences of inspection, argues Loic Menzies

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Loic Menzies

Opinion: Accountability

What schools gain from SIAMS’s supportive model of inspection

SIAMS gives governors a unique way to evaluate school culture focused on its character and values

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Kevin Campbell-Wright

Opinion: Accountability

Thinking beyond Ofsted is now mainstream and success beckons

The Beyond Ofsted inquiry shows that was once radical is now within reach

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Caroline Derbyshire

Opinion: Solutions

Three ways to bridge the digital divide

Every school and every pupil can keep pace with rapid technological progress regardless of their finances or starting points,…

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Carrie Anne Philbin

Must Read

The Knowledge

Are schools pushing views about race on their pupils?

Our new research shows some students’ free speech is being limited – but not in the ways some commentators…

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Professor Karl Kitching

Opinion: Politics

Continuity at the top is crucial to Labour’s opportunity mission

Talk of a reshuffle may have the education secretary’s detractors excited, but it would be bad news for a…

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Simon Kidwell

The Curriculum Conversation

The last thing history needs is more revolution

History teachers already have the tools to drive improvement. We mustn’t jeopardise that in the quest to modernise

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Michael Fordham

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

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

Exams

The number of penalties handed out to students caught cheating has risen for a second year

The stereotype that could be feeding exam anxiety

The ‘snowflake’ stereotype is damaging and unjustified, but a more pervasive idea may be perpetuating exam anxiety, says Stephen…

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Stephen Caldwell

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