Local authorities

How Suffolk’s schools are putting collaboration over competition

The Suffolk Education Partnership shows there is no rift that can’t be bridged for the benefit of learners, says…

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Andrew Berry
Opinion: Accountability

DfE should act to prevent Covid impact on GCSE performance

Early data suggests this year’s performance data risks being unfairly skewed without changes to account for the ongoing legacy…

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Duncan Baldwin
Opinion: Mental health

The ‘Muslim problem’ is actually an opportunity for schools

Understanding how faith acts as a motivator for Muslim children and young people can only positively contribute to schools’…

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Sabah Gilani
Opinion: Workforce

How our trust is beating the recruitment and retention blues

Investing in an internal recruitment business has been transformative for the trust, its schools and its pupils, explains Lee…

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Lee Mason-Ellis
Politics

The curriculum Labour is looking for is already here

Why re-invent the national curriculum when the international baccalaureate already delivers everything Labour wants?

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Jo Sale
Opinion

Fix children’s social care to improve their GCSE grades

Policymakers must not ignore what happens outside the school gate, writes Joe Lane

Freddie Whittaker
Joe Lane
SEND review

Families face a postcode lottery for SEND support. That needs to change

Schools work tirelessly to meet pupils’ needs, but often this job has been too hard, writes children’s minister Claire…

Freddie Whittaker
Claire Coutinho MP
Opinion: Mental health

Pupil wellbeing: What can schools realistically do?

With the right focus, policy can empower schools to help tackle the youth mental health crisis, says Loic Menzies

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Loic Menzies
A-level results 2023

Our broken regulatory system disadvantages English pupils

The discrepancies between grades for English pupils and their Welsh and Northern Irish couterparts are indefensible, says Jon Coles

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Sir Jon Coles

Must Read

The Knowledge

Persistent barriers continue to limit our vital STEM potential

A new parliamentary report reveals the persistent educational barriers hampering our efforts to be the science powerhouse the prime…

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Dr Lauren Sullivan MP
Labour’s first year

We’ve laid the foundations. Now we build

Education secretary says her government’s work so far is just the beginning, and here’s what comes next …

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Bridget Phillipson
Labour’s first year

Engaging trusts is key to the opportunity mission’s success

Ministers have shown they can listen to the sector. More of that will be necessary as the details of…

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Leora Cruddas

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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