Opinion: Policy

Funding teacher development must continue – whoever is in charge

A broad consensus among the profession for continued investment in the ‘golden thread’ must be reflected among political decision-makers

JL Dutaut
David Weston and Gareth Conyard
Opinion: Policy

We must end the 30-year silence about boys’ underperformance

Boys have been at the wrong end of a gender attainment gap for three decades and it is time…

JL Dutaut
Nick Fletcher MP
The Knowledge

Can teaching through languages improve overall outcomes?

A new longitudinal study shows teaching subjects in foreign languages could benefit all learners

JL Dutaut
Judith Woodfield
Opinion: Attendance

Covid has broken the old habit of going to school

What lessons can we learn from the past about driving attendance up?

JL Dutaut
Daisy Christodoulou
Opinion: Curriculum

We must make space for applied learning in the curriculum

We have over-balanced education towards academic learning to the detriment of vital skills

JL Dutaut
Justine Greening
Opinion: Accountability

Reforming accountability hinges on lowering the stakes 

We won’t fix inspection until we reform the consequences of inspection, argues Loic Menzies

JL Dutaut
Loic Menzies
Opinion: Accountability

What schools gain from SIAMS’s supportive model of inspection

SIAMS gives governors a unique way to evaluate school culture focused on its character and values

JL Dutaut
Kevin Campbell-Wright
Opinion: Accountability

Thinking beyond Ofsted is now mainstream and success beckons

The Beyond Ofsted inquiry shows that was once radical is now within reach

JL Dutaut
Caroline Derbyshire
Opinion: Solutions

Three ways to bridge the digital divide

Every school and every pupil can keep pace with rapid technological progress regardless of their finances or starting points,…

JL Dutaut
Carrie Anne Philbin

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AI can be part of the solution to schools’ mentor capacity crisis

With a school using AI coaching, Professor Haili Hughes reveals whether others should follow suit

Freddie Whittaker
Professor Haili Hughes
Opinion: Reading

A reading target is right. Here’s how schools can make it happen

Targets and regular tests can transform outcomes, but only if schools build the systems, culture and expertise to deliver,…

John Dickens
Becks Boomer-Clark
Opinion

Leadership lessons from Southport’s darkest days

In the wake of unimaginable loss, trust leader David Clayton shares how compassion, presence and belonging came to define…

Freddie Whittaker
David Clayton

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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