Features All Features Features Exclusions: are there too many or too few? As the debate on school exclusions becomes increasingly polarised, we brought together two people with opposing views to see… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Should you hand back an EHCP if you think the child no longer needs it? Ed Vainker is the co-founder and executive principal of Reach Academy Feltham, the school featured in the documentary H… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Michael Merrick, Deputy head, St Cuthbert’s Catholic Community School Eight years ago, Michael Merrick and his wife moved from St Andrews, where he was partway through a PhD… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Paul Luxmoore, CEO, Coastal Academies Trust When we exchanged descriptions so we could recognise one another on the platform, Paul Luxmoore, CEO of the Coastal… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Zoe Carr, CEO, WISE Academies Ofsted has just descended on the most challenging school in the WISE Academies trust, and CEO Zoe Carr is… Catherine Murray 7y Catherine Murray 7y Features David Laws and Natalie Perera, Executive chairman and Executive director, Education Policy Institute I’m at the new Education Policy Institute offices at 9am on a sweltering Monday to meet its executive chairman,… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Peter Lee, Head of School, Q3 Langley I emerge from the loo at Q3 Langley to find my path blocked by a single-file procession of year… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Sabrina Hobbs, principal, Severndale specialist academy A nine-year-old boy in a wheelchair is delightedly pressing the large button on a battery-powered speaker that calls Betsy the… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Carole Willis, Chief Executive, National Foundation for Educational Research Education researchers are a strange breed. While the think-tanks openly court the press, and even the university academics are… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress, Michaela Community School A customised Marmite jar stands on Katharine Birbalsingh’s desk, with the name “Michaela” emblazoned across it. It’s a stroke of… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Debra Rutley, Executive headteacher, Aspire Alternative Provision “I didn’t have a positive experience at school,” admits Debra Rutley, “and I think that has had a massive… Schools Week Reporter 7y Schools Week Reporter 7y Features Paul Whiteman, General secretary, NAHT Almost a year to the day since he was unveiled as the NAHT’s preferred candidate to replace Russell Hobby… Freddie Whittaker 7y Freddie Whittaker 7y Newer 1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 30 Older Must Read Covid Exclusive 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 4y James Carr 4y 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 4y Tom Belger 4y