Opinion

Why academy trusts matter – and why we need a tinder for MATs

The model enables great trustees and leaders to make an impact across a whole group of schools, writes Mark…

Mark Lehain
Mark Lehain
LGBT+

Rise of the furries: A purr-fect storm for transgender rights

Unevidenced claims of children identifying as cats would be hilarious if they weren’t so dangerous for their real target…

JL Dutaut
Tabitha McIntosh
Curriculum

Six top tips to diversify your English curriculum

It’s not about scrapping Shakespeare but complementing and enriching students’ reading, explains Tabatha Sheehan

JL Dutaut
Tabatha Sheehan
The Knowledge

Can adventure learning improve student outcomes?

A new EEF report contains enough evidence to recommend that it should be available to all of our young…

JL Dutaut
Dr Sarah Reaney-Wood and Ben Willis
Community

Schools can’t continue to be the fourth emergency service

It’s not sustainable to keep asking heads to take a lead in helping families in crisis through our fractured…

JL Dutaut
Keziah Featherstone
RAAC

RAAC: How to spot the ‘ticking timebomb’  and what to do next

Nobody wants the cost of uncovering and remediating crumbly building material, says Lucia Glynn, but the cost of not…

JL Dutaut
Lucia Glynn
Service children

Why service children need support and how to provide it

On Armed Forces Day, Louis Fetigan sets out the challenges military life brings to children and how schools can…

JL Dutaut
Louise Fetigan
Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted’s problem is that it isn’t ‘wicked’ enough

No I’m not picking up the baton of hard-nosed leadership Michael Wilshaw just dropped, says Doug Lowes, but Ofsted…

JL Dutaut
Dr Doug Lowes
Disadvantage gap

We need to be more discerning about disadvantage

Blunt measures like pupil premium are not equal to the task of informing decisions about educational provision, write Timo…

JL Dutaut
Timo Hannay and Duncan Baldwin

Must Read

Recruitment and retention

An impoverished work-life drives too many teachers out

The default position that teaching should be professionally (and sometimes personally) all-encompassing is a retention own-goal

John Dickens
Nansi Ellis and Haili Hughes
SEND solutions

We must reclaim our role as SEND and AP’s fixers. ASAP

New project aims to gather and broadcast the solutions to the SEND funding crisis that are lighting the way…

John Dickens
Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge
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…

JL Dutaut
Professor Karl Kitching

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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