Features All Features Education technology 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Profile 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Features 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Features 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Profile 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Profile 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Wellbeing 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Profile Profile 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Profile Profile 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 2y Jessica Hill 2y Features Profile 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 2y Jack Dyson 2y Newer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 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