Opinion: Accountability

The absence of Progress 8 is an accountability trap in selective areas

In selective areas, Attainment 8 tells us more about admissions than teaching. Without Progress 8, comprehensives are at risk…

JL Dutaut
Michael Cater
Opinion: Assessment

Examiners deserve better than the tech problems they face

Exam boards must act to ensure examiners can do their jobs properly. Faith in the system hinges on it

JL Dutaut
Dr Kanayo Phoebe Situ
The Research Leader

Mental health investment could transform GCSE results

A new report shows that supporting young people with mental health would improve school outcomes and boost the economy

JL Dutaut
Catherine Roche
Opinion: Workforce

Piecemeal reform can’t solve teaching’s workforce crisis

The problem is much more fundamental and will require Labour to usher in a new paradigm of professionalism -…

JL Dutaut
Professor David Spendlove
Opinion: Solutions

How to balance CPD at individual, school and trust level

Our work to enhance professional development across our trust reveals helpful ways forward for others and things ministers could…

JL Dutaut
Scott Hudson
Opinion: Inclusion

How can mainstream schools be more inclusive? 

A student panel at the Festival of Education demonstrated how small changes can make a big difference to young…

JL Dutaut
Francesca Martinez
Exams

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
Sam Sykes
The Curriculum Conversation

How the Francis review can solve England’s languages crisis

Arresting the decline and growing disparities in language uptake is within the grasp of the curriculum and assessment review….

JL Dutaut
Juliette Claro
Opinion: Academy trusts

How small trusts can drive a new era of sustained improvement

Labour have caused a slow-down in trust expansion, but small MATs can turn this into an opportunity to grow…

JL Dutaut
Mark Greatrex

Must Read

Opinion: Solutions

Five do-now strategies to ease the Year 7 dip

Here’s what we’ve learned from our programme to tackle disengagement in an area where the problem is pervasive

JL Dutaut
Rebecca Maw
Opinion: Inclusion

What the inclusion push can learn from Haringey

AP is a lifeline, not a footnote. Haringey’s model shows what’s possible when we prioritise its pupils and their…

JL Dutaut
Cllr Zena Brabazon
Opinion: CPD

NPQs must evolve to avoid a policy ‘boom and bust’

In many ways, this is the golden age of professional development, but there’s a gap in our provision which…

JL Dutaut
Poppy Nobes

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

University clearing: How teachers can support students 

All the important details school staff need to help youngsters through clearing this year

John Dickens
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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