Features All Features Academies Profile Looking to the Future after online harassment Lawrence Foley went from school refuser to doctor in modernist literature – but his career almost came to a… Jessica Hill 8mo Jessica Hill 8mo Academies Profile Dan Thomas, chief executive, TLP Dan Thomas, now chief executive of The Learning Partnership trust, was once prompted by a fortune cookie to ‘take… Jessica Hill 9mo Jessica Hill 9mo Governance Profile A journey from California’s Death Row to school governance From California’s Death Row to school governance, the Confederation of School Trusts’ Samira Sadeghi explains how the roles are… Jessica Hill 9mo Jessica Hill 9mo Artificial Intelligence Investigation 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 9mo Jessica Hill 9mo Academies Profile 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 9mo Jessica Hill 9mo Teacher training Profile 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 10mo Jessica Hill 10mo Hospital schools Investigation 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 10mo Jessica Hill 10mo AI in schools Long read 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 10mo Jessica Hill 10mo Academies 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 11mo Jessica Hill 11mo Politics Profile 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 11mo Jessica Hill 11mo Schools Long read 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 11mo Jessica Hill 11mo Mental health Long read ‘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 12mo Jessica Hill 12mo Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 29 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 3y James Carr 3y 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 3y Tom Belger 3y