Opinion: Sustainability

COP28: UK drives international collaboration but there’s more to be done at home

Ana Romero reflects on her time at the COP28 summit in Dubai and the place of education at the…

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Ana Romero
The Knowledge

Are teacher commutes getting any greener?

Teacher commutes are decarbonising very slowly but there are signs that efforts are building up a head of steam

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Iain Ford
2023 in review

2023 in review: How much more of a kicking can we take?

We’ve been playing on a slanted pitch for far too long and players are abandoning the game

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Keziah Featherstone
2023 in review

2023 in review: We look after more and more, but who looks after us?

Becky Black reflects on a year when long-term disruption by RAAC resulted in a short pause from Ofsted. A…

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Becky Black
2023 in review

2023 in review: Our focus must be on rebuilding a broken social contract

Trust leaders must learn from our longest-standing institutions and put long-term aims over short-term results

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Peter Hughes
The Knowledge

What parents told us about their children’s mental health

Parents across the UK are worried about the mental state of their children, reveals a new survey

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Jason Elsom
Opinion: Curriculum

Building blocks for teaching tomorrow’s environmentalists

The Crown Estate have launched two educational Minecraft worlds to engage young people with gree skills and conservation

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Judith Everett
2023 in review

2023 in review: We can no longer ignore the impact of poverty

Four publications this month sum up the state of education policy at year’s end and make next year’s priorities…

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Natalie Perera
Opinion: Estates

The UK’s first biophilic school heralds the sustainable future of learning

As COP28 draws to a close, Sumeet Bhatia reveals Cisco’s work with DfE to create a school to model…

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Sumeet Bhatia

Must Read

Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted have wasted an opportunity for fundamental reform 

The new framework is rushed and doesn’t deliver the change the sector needs. Bridget Phillipson must step in

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Daniel Kebede
Labour’s first year

Six priorities for Bridget Phillipson’s second year at the helm

Labour has broadened the definition of success for schools. Here’s how it can now ensure everyone works towards this…

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Liz Robinson
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor, 5 September 2025

Schools Week’s legendary cartoonist hangs up his pen, perceptions of behaviour diverge, and a data disaster looms

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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,…

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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
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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

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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,…

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James Handscombe
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