Features All Features Politics Long read Votes at 16: Are schools prepared for politics in the classroom? Ministers hope the move will engage young people in democracy, but schools face an uphill battle to prepare them Ruth Lucas 6mo Ruth Lucas 6mo Profile Profile Gareth Conyard, CEO, Teacher Development Trust It’s estimated to be a half-billion-pound industry in England, but all is not well in the world of teachers’… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 6mo Profile Profile Matt Wrack, general secretary, NASUWT The new head of the NASUWT has ruled out merging with another union “for now”, insisted his lack of… Freddie Whittaker 7mo Freddie Whittaker 7mo Profile Profile Josh MacAlister, MP for Whitehaven and Workington Josh MacAlister isn’t wasting time. Weeks after becoming the MP for Whitehaven and Workington in Cumbria last July, the… Freddie Whittaker 8mo Freddie Whittaker 8mo School improvement Long read Lessons from a 10-year school turnaround Declan Linnane took Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School from ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’ with a mission to focus on inclusion. Here’s… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 8mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 8mo Features Long read ‘I was a real fanboy, but the school had lost its way’ Fixing School 21, the ‘progressive’ education torchbearer Chaminda Jayanetti 9mo Chaminda Jayanetti 9mo Profile Profile Chris Zarraga, director of Schools North East Every August, school leaders in the north of England brace themselves for the inevitable – yet misguided – comparisons…. Freddie Whittaker 9mo Freddie Whittaker 9mo Inclusion Investigation ‘Burnt out and isolated’: the staff on the SEND crisis frontline SENCos will be central to any government plan to make mainstream schools more inclusive. But are their roles even… Lydia Chantler-Hicks 9mo Lydia Chantler-Hicks 9mo Profile Profile Avnee Morjaria, IPPR IPPR associate director Avnee Morjaria has taught, inspected and worked in government. Now she is influencing policy from… Rhi Storer 10mo Rhi Storer 10mo Profile Profile Chalke it up to experience: Lessons in being mission-driven Labour can learn a lot about belonging, inclusion and being mission-driven from Steve Chalke’s life and work, finds JL… JL Dutaut 11mo JL Dutaut 11mo Ofsted Long read ‘What we see are wasted lives’: Meet the Ofsted illegal schools team In a rare interview, the Ofsted team tasked with tackling illegal schools speaks about the horrors they have witnessed,… Rosa Furneaux 11mo Rosa Furneaux 11mo Features Profile A new hope for University Technical Colleges? When University Technical Colleges launched in 2010, they were hailed as the solution needed to propel young people to… Jessica Hill 11mo Jessica Hill 11mo Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 32 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 5y Tom Belger 5y
