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Artificial Intelligence

AI cheating: just how much is going on in schools?

An explosion in AI ‘study aids’ has armed pupils with the means to cheat their way through assignments. But…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

Always talking up maths, in a country that talks it down

David Thomas was one of the youngest heads in the country. He’s set up a national online academy and…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Teacher training

Teacher training guru Lynne McKenna, University of Sunderland

Lynne McKenna, Dean of Education and Society at the University of Sunderland, has a formidable work ethic. She “easily”…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Hospital schools

Hospital schools: on the mental health crisis frontline

Taxis pull up throughout the day outside the brightly painted Magpie Centre to drop off its growing cohort of…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
AI in schools

AI marking: the answer to poor recruitment or ‘pure snake oil’?

Bot exam markers, robot tutors and AI-written reports are all now being used in schools as they look to…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
profile

Nicole McCartney, Creative Education Trust

Nicole McCartney is a rare species: someone with lived experience of being permanently excluded from school who has gone…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill


Politics

Ex Downing Street, Treasury and DfE advisor Tim Leunig

Tim Leunig is the brains behind some of the biggest education policies of the past decade. He also came…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Schools

Can online schools solve the post-Covid attendance crisis?

In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year,…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Mental health

‘Someone’s got to do it, so we’re doing it’

Schools are swapping English and maths for lessons in wellbeing, running interventions akin to those used for drug addicts…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academies

Sarah Finch, chief executive, Marches Academy Trust

Sarah Finch is used to going beyond the job description in her education career. The chief executive of the…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Governance

Claire Pannell is taking the law into her trust’s own hands

Claire Pannell reckons she might be the only person in the country with her job title. While many trusts…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Academy

From sink to success: how a trust’s leader transformed his schools

Once a humble design technology teacher in Sunderland, Nick Hurn reveals the truth of his schools’ growth and development……

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson

Must Read

Covid

DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules

The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures

Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger