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‘LAURA MCINERNEY’
Secret documents, submarines, and teachers escaping to warmer climes all graced the Schools Week cover this year. But what were the most-read stories online? In reverse order: 10. More teachers left to go abroad last year than did a university PGCE Shocking figures revealed how last year over 18,000 extra teachers made their way to work in British […]
News
During an event at the RSA, editor Laura McInerney revealed for the first time the paper’s investigations into ‘Tired Teachers’ Over the summer our newsroom had one mission: to find out why everyone in schools said there was a teacher shortage yet government stats didn’t agree. We published our first deep investigations back in […]
Opinion
Graham Stuart’s continued interest in education is glaringly obvious. Tucked away in the corner of a whiteboard on his parliamentary office wall are the words: “sampling assessment of student desk book”. He gurns when I point it out. “Erm . . . I remain interested in how best to assess and deliver accountability for schools, […]
Features
Schools Week walked away with four prizes at this year’s CIPR Education Journalism awards. It was a clean sweep in the best newcomer category, which John Dickens won for his work uncovering a breach in admission rules at Grey Coat Hospital, the secondary school that David Cameron and Michael Gove have chosen for their daughters. […]
Politics
As one school consults parents on regular cash contributions to boost its ailing coffers, editor Laura McInerney considers the implications Schools are facing a grim financial situation. Planned increases in pensions and national insurance are rocketing staff costs, which are already around 80 per cent of what school budgets are spent on. Heads only […]
State-prescribed textbooks do not have to be oppressive and could be created by teachers competing to get their best activities into them, delegates at a summit in central London heard this week. Assessment expert Tim Oates told the Politics in Education summit in London that top-performing education systems, such as in Finland and Shanghai, used […]
Watching Kathy Harwood receive the outstanding teaching assistant of the year trophy at the Pearson Teaching Awards on Sunday night was quite something to behold. After leaping onto the stage she smothered straight-laced presenter Dan Snow with a hug before joyfully fist-punching the air. A video played of parent tributes, with many close to tears, […]
Nicky Morgan has clashed with trade unionists at the Conservative Party conference as she accused them of painting a “negative picture” of teaching. During a heated debate at a fringe event organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), the education secretary, pictured above right, said she was […]
Sir Michael Wilshaw has just revealed that his favourite childhood toy was a silver gun, and his favourite film is The Godfather. It is an emblematic moment. Known as a say-it-straight, rough, tough, make-‘em-sit-in-silence type headteacher, it fits his legend perfectly. Given that Ofsted is sometimes talked about by teachers as a form of mafia […]
