The Knowledge

How are SENDCOs managing amid rising pressures?

New research reveals the pressures of escalating need and insufficient resource – but diverging views of the SENDCO role…

JL Dutaut
Rik Chilvers
Opinion: Workforce

Weaving the ‘golden thread’ is key to its impact

A growing set of leadership programmes is nurturing leaders who can weave the ‘golden thread’ of professional development into…

JL Dutaut
Gail Brown and Lorraine Heath
NTP

To save tuition, we must let the NTP die

Calls to extend NTP funding recognise tuition’s positive impact but ignore more effective ways to fund it to achieve…

JL Dutaut
Josh Blackburn
Inclusion

Islamophobia exists – and we must combat it in our schools

A deeply flawed political discourse is normalising anti-Muslim sentiment with worrying consequences for our students

JL Dutaut
Amjad Ali
Opinion: Workforce

Today’s proposals are crucial for a CPD entitlement that works

A new report by the Teacher Development Trust lays the foundations for making Labour’s policy work – but…

JL Dutaut
Cat Scutt and Alison Peacock
Opinion: Attendance
absences fines

Attendance: Another fine mess the government’s got us into

Punishing struggling families by making them struggle more is outdated, regressive and completely counter-productive

JL Dutaut
Ed Dorrell
Opinion: Policy

How to insulate schools from booms and busts

Questioning our assumptions a decade ago could have saved a lot of money and pre-empted the developing crisis of…

JL Dutaut
Tim Leunig
The Knowledge

How youth work complements and supports schools

Three studies show how youth work is a vital part of any effort to improve the lives and outcomes…

JL Dutaut
Will Millard and Jacob Diggle
Attendance
attendance

Persistent absence risks children’s futures. Here’s how we’ll address it

Raising fines and making guidance and daily data submissions mandatory will boost early intervention and a support-first approach, says…

Freddie Whittaker
Damian Hinds

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Opinion

Given the choice, do we want SEND segregation in education?

If we accept specialist facilities should exist primarily to support inclusion, rather than as parallel systems, we must consider…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Vasilis Strogilos
Opinion

What we learned from four Ofsted report card inspections

If the renewed framework can play a role in supporting our own high expectations, then we welcome it with…

Freddie Whittaker
Andrew Rigby
Opinion

We need your input to ensure NPQs provide the skills needed in schools 

The demands on leaders are shifting, and the frameworks that support them have to move too. Evidence and practice…

Freddie Whittaker
Dr Herminder Channa

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

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,…

JL Dutaut
James Handscombe
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