Opinion: SEND

Policy must better promote local SEND collaboration

Our recent work in Lambeth shows that government could quickly drive up SEND capacity nationally by incentivising partnerships between…

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Abrilli Phillip and Dr Sam Parrett
Opinion: Solutions

How to get beyond ‘need’ to genuine inclusion

Focusing on resource distribution to meet individual needs is a distraction from creating inclusive learning environments

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Steve Haines and David Ruebain
Opinion: Curriculum

Career-limiting stereotypes start young. We must start younger

Marking Careers Week and International Women’s Day, here’s how Ark is helping girls choose pathways still dominated by men

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Erika Nabeshima
Opinion: Policy

Government must check its sums on maths investment

Maths equals growth, and the government’s strategy must better reflect this reality

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Simon Coyle
The Knowledge

How are school leaders navigating the AI revolution?

A new school leaders’ survey shows how schools are using AI to tackle challenges, but also reveals a major…

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Claire Archibald
The Curriculum Conversation

A ‘capability’ approach should underpin a new curriculum vision

A model informed by a Nobel prize-winning economist offers a way to overcome knowledge vs skills and make curriculum…

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Richard Bustin
Opinion: Politics

Phillipson must unite ministers and teachers on school standards 

Needless division between ministers and the sector threaten the government’s agenda. Here’s how to get past it

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Avnee Morjaria
Opinion: Policy

The schools bill must do more on pupil movement oversight

Proposals to better monitor pupil movements are welcome, but we must identify schools where the practice is common and…

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Edward Timpson
Opinion: Policy

We can’t close the disadvantage gap if we don’t know what drives it

The current index measure isn’t fit to inform policy and makes government accountability all but impossible

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Jude Hillary

Must Read

The Curriculum Conversation

How to embed oracy as the national curriculum’s ‘fourth R’

Weaving oracy through all subjects can be focal point for breathing new life into the curriculum as a whole….

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Geoff Barton
Opinion: SEND

A golden opportunity to help fix our broken SEND system

A new consultation invites schools and trusts to lead the way in fixing our broken SEND system

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Andrew O’Neill
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but…

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Matt Hood

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,…

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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

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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