Artificial Intelligence

Keegan is right to back AI to reduce teacher workload

Ministerial announcements on reducing teacher workload are nothing new, writes Ed Reza Schwitzer, but Keegan’s bet that AI can…

JL Dutaut
Ed Reza Schwitzer
Opinion

It’s time to decide what our schools and teachers are for

Are schools education specialists or the front line of children’s services? Without clarity we are failing children and staff

Freddie Whittaker
Sinéad Mc Brearty
LGBT+

Solutions: A whole-trust approach to LGBTQ+ safeguarding

Evie Cryer reflects on the gains Oasis Community Learning has made in safeguarding LGBTQ+ pupils and staff by creating…

JL Dutaut
Evie Cryer
Teacher pay

Are we now experiencing a cost-of-teaching crisis?

New research into how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the school workforce reveals the stark realities of a dysfunctional…

JL Dutaut
Storm Postlethwaite
Careers

Making careers visible is the secret to success for many pupils

We must unpick why so many students end up excluded from potential careers simply because they don’t know about…

JL Dutaut
Nic Ponsford
Opinion: Curriculum

How diversifying our curriculum made English engaging again

There’s no reason for any school to miss out on the joyful results – for pupils and staff –…

JL Dutaut
Joy Mbakwe
ChatGPT

Government must do more to regulate AI in education

Lack of a clear government strategy to ensure safe exploration of AI in education puts children at significant risk…

JL Dutaut
Victoria Nash
Extra-curricular

Solutions: 10 ways schools can save on residentials

Adila Rose sets out some practical tips for reducing the cost of residentials so that all learners can access…

JL Dutaut
Adila Rose
The Knowledge

How can teachers judge the efficacy of edtech?

Natalia Kucirkova sets out what schools should look out for – and demand – when shopping for edtech to…

JL Dutaut
Natalia Kucirkova

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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