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Emma Sheppard, founder, MaternityTeacher PaternityTeacher project

Emma Sheppard is on a mission to make it easier for parents to stay in teaching – and to…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Robert Halfon, Chair, Education select committee

Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, campaigned in the corridors of Parliament for the position…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Natasha Porter, CEO, Unlocked Graduates

Teach First is spawning. First there was Frontline, which applied the model to social care, and Think Ahead, focusing…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Jan Dubiel, Head of national and international development, Early Excellence

Specialist early-years training company Early Excellence was famously shafted by the Department for Education in November, in the latest…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Helena Marsh, executive principal, Chilford Hundred Education Trust

Helena Marsh is scouring the SSAT conference programme looking for a suitable interview time. She’s one of the opening…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Toby Salt, Chief executive, AQA

Stag’s Hill in Guildford is an address known to the many secondary teachers who have submitted GCSE coursework to…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney


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Christine Counsell, Director of Education, Inspiration Trust

Norfolk-based Inspiration Trust is proud of its reputation as a “knowledge-based” multi-academy trust – evidenced by one of the…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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David Benson, Principal, Kensington Aldridge Academy

This isn’t supposed to be a story about Grenfell Tower. It’s supposed to be the story of David Benson,…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Daisy Christodoulou, Director, No More Marking

The Charles Dickens Museum café is a pertinent location to meet Daisy Christodoulou, the author of the enduringly popular…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Matt Hood – Director, Institute for Teaching

For a man in his early 30s, Matt Hood has had a lot of jobs. But as the inaugural…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sam Twiselton, Director, Sheffield Institute of Education

Sam Twiselton narrates the Carter Review of initial teacher training as a satisfying morality tale of evidence over ideology….

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Tom Ravenscroft, CEO, Enabling Enterprise

Tom Ravenscroft is perhaps the most quietly passionate proponent of a “skills” curriculum in education today – and if…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg

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