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NTP

School leaders continue to doubt tutoring’s levelling up potential

NFER’s new survey reveals uncertainty amongst school leaders about whether tutoring is a long-term solution to closing the disadvantage…

JL Dutaut

Emma Moore

Opinion: Workforce

Four tangible policy solutions to tackle the recruitment crisis

Rhys Howells sets out some low-hanging fruit for policy makers to start making a dent in the recruitment crisis

JL Dutaut

Rhys Howells

Opinion: Sustainability

What do schools really need to deliver climate change education now?

Teachers don’t need a curriculum review or a new GCSE to deliver climate change education, writes Sylvia Knight. They…

JL Dutaut

Professor Sylvia Knight

MATs

Trust central team growth has outstripped trust expansions

Why trust central teams can be worth their weight in gold

A strong and high-performing central team has many benefits, as Sir David Carter explains. But they must get their…

John Dickens

Sir David Carter

The Knowledge

Place-based challenges for schools mean locality matters

Tanya Ovenden-Hope sets out the key findings from new research on a multi-academy trust Hub model for schools intended…

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Tanya Ovenden-Hope

Opinion: Accountability

Peer review can’t replace inspection – but it can inform it

The power of peer review depends on its being kept separate from the incentives and disincentives of formalised accountability,…

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Kate Chhatwal

Opinion: Accountability

Safeguarding should matter to Ofsted as much as to schools

This week’s announcement doesn’t inspire confidence that Ofsted and the DfE get the impact accountability is having on headteachers,…

JL Dutaut

Duncan Spalding

Opinion: Workforce

Is moving up a bigger retention problem than moving out?

A new leadership pyramid has emerged that is pulling talent up faster than it can be replaced, argues David…

JL Dutaut

David Benson

Opinion

Solutions: How to make Healthy Eating Week inclusive for autistic children

Eating can be a stressful experience for autistic young people, explains Jo Galloway, but that doesn’t have to limit…

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Jo Galloway

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

21h

Emma Bradshaw and Tom Legge

21h

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

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

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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