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Seven new education faces have been added to a list of the 500 most influential people in the country – but not a single current teacher is included. Included for the first time this year in the education section of the Debrett’s 500 list, published by the Times, is the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, the […]
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Most teachers will already have thought about what they’d like to achieve this new year. But what about the things they’d like to see the back of? During the festive season I thought about the teaching ideas posed by the Department for Education (DfE) that I’d like to see banished this year. Here are my […]
Opinion
In a year when people started revolting against the opinion writer and calling for ‘safe spaces’, Schools Week continued bringing thought-provoking content – even when it caused some opposition. Here’s the 10 pieces this year which garnered the most attention. 10. If I were education secretary – Debra Kidd In our most read of the ‘If […]
Secret documents, submarines, and teachers escaping to warmer climes all graced the Schools Week cover this year. But what were the most-read stories online? In reverse order: 10. More teachers left to go abroad last year than did a university PGCE Shocking figures revealed how last year over 18,000 extra teachers made their way to work in British […]
Many book reviews are ill-disguised attacks on the author. Others don’t even bother to try and disguise their attacks. A good review dispassionately critiques a work, sorting wheat from chaff, strengths from weaknesses, informative text from garbled word-jumbles, and leaves the reader enlightened of a book’s true worth. But I don’t “do” dispassionate, and the title of this book […]
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The many hidden leaders within schools can sometimes be hard to spot. Here’s how to look out for them . . . What leadership do you do behind the scenes that is important yet unrecognised? Have you ever had to deal with a situation for which you felt unequipped? For example, dealing with the media, […]
Cut time in the classroom to one-third. It will be expensive, but it is what teachers need have a radical solution to stop the endless workload rhetoric offered by politicians in lip-service conferences typically attended by few classroom teachers, but filled instead with school leaders, policymakers and educators. When the outcomes of the Department for […]
Ross McGill, blogger, Twitter fiend and a deputy head, Quintin Kynaston Community Academy, north London Wearing a long black coat, fluorescent vest and speaking into a walkie-talkie, Ross Morrison McGill’s 6ft 4in skin-headed frame would look perfect outside a nightclub marshalling rowdy night clubbers. But it’s Friday, it’s 4pm and McGill – the only state […]
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