Opinion: Policy

Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day

There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about…

JL Dutaut
Jon Bryan
Opinion: Solutions

How to build a new system on inclusive foundations

We need to re-draw the incentives that drive SEND provision, starting upstream of diagnosis and right down to how…

JL Dutaut
Matt Hood
Opinion

How assessment should (and shouldn’t) evolve in the age of AI

We can no longer ignore how AI is changing the assessment landscape – but it doesn’t mean what many…

JL Dutaut
Daisy Christodoulou
Opinion: Politics

Politicians must set out a brighter vision for children

Reclaiming childhood is key to winning the hearts and minds of disenfranchised communities. Here’s what Labour and the Conservatives…

JL Dutaut
Will Bickford Smith
Opinion: Workforce

The review into leadership NPQs is starting in the wrong place

The way DfE are going about it will not generate the information they need to drive improvement

JL Dutaut
Gareth Conyard and Steve Lancashire
Opinion: Curriculum review

The maths curriculum must catch up with mastery

Developments in teaching maths are being hampered by a curriculum and assessment system that has not caught up. Here’s…

JL Dutaut
Dr Helen Drury and David Monis-Weston
Opinion: Inclusion

We need to advocate for poor white boys – or others will

The opportunity mission must unashamedly include white working-class children or others will capitalise on their disenfranchisement

JL Dutaut
Nick Osborne
Opinion: Estates

‘High and rising standards’ must apply to buildings too

How can we deliver the government’s inclusive vision if its own rebuilding programme drives building standards down?

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Black
Opinion: Funding

Narrow conversations about school budgets miss the big picture

Crucial parts of the story of school budgets are too often left on the cutting room floor. Finance teams…

JL Dutaut
Steve Rollett

Must Read

Opinion: Policy

Labour must curtail centralisation – not innovation

Ministers’ desire for consistency and fairness always comes at a cost – and it’s a cost we can’t afford…

JL Dutaut
James Zuccollo
Opinion: Workforce

Recruitment alone won’t solve the workforce crisis

The pledge to recruit 6,500 new teachers can only be one facet of government’s approach if it hopes to…

JL Dutaut
Melanie Renowden
AP

Unregistered AP: A new blueprint to safeguard our children

Dame de Souza sets out reforms to ensure vulnerable children are kept safe, while protecting the ‘lifeline’ offered by…

John Dickens
Dame Rachel de Souza

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

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
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…

JL Dutaut
Stephen Caldwell
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