The Knowledge

What the pandemic taught us about meeting additional needs

Many more children may benefit from EHCPs – and other findings from EPI’s latest analysis

JL Dutaut
Jo Hutchinson
Assessment

Are we asking the right questions on assessment?

A new AQA report proposes new assessment models for the millions left lacking critical skills by the current format

JL Dutaut
Reza Schwitzer
Opinion: Academy trusts

When it’s done right, centralisation is collaboration

Steve Brownlow explores one of the key tensions at the heart of school trusts and how to balance agency…

JL Dutaut
Steve Brownlow


Opinion: Academy trusts

The RAAC crisis proves the power of being in a MAT

It hasn’t been a cake-walk, but the strength in depth our MAT provides has allowed us to weather the…

JL Dutaut
James Browning
Opinion: Academy trusts

Three priorities to set the MAT-led system on a course to success

Steve Taylor sets out the Queen Street Group’s top priorities for the year ahead – and to set the…

JL Dutaut
Steve Taylor
Religious education

The RE Council at 50: Champions of a thoroughly modern subject

As the Religious Education Council turns 50, its chair argues that the subject is more relevant than ever in…

JL Dutaut
Sarah Lane Cawte
Politics

Success of society depends on education being a top policy priority

The Fair Education Alliance shares its cross-sector manifesto for a fair education system and argues it needs to be…

JL Dutaut
Janeen Hayat
Opinion: Solutions

Three ways one simple survey is improving our PSHE provision

Aimee Stevens sets out how NHS research is powering her school’s PSHE teaching with data, influencing its curriculum and…

JL Dutaut
Aimee Stevens
Artificial Intelligence

The first exams of the AI age are over, so what now?

How we act now will determine whether AI widens attainment gaps or helps us to bridge them

JL Dutaut
Jason Tomlinson

Must Read

Opinion

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

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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