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Teachers returning to their classrooms after a mild September weekend would today be forgiven for believing two Tristram Hunts are roving Labour conference this year. The first attended Saturday’s “PolicyMeet” – a Labour Teachers and Education Foundation event, organised by John Blake – with different speakers from across the education sector giving their ideas about […]
Opinion
Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt today outlined his three key campaign pillars as Labour heads into its general election campaign. Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, he outlined his priorities, including childcare reform, a qualified teacher in every classroom, and an education system “which works for the forgotten 50 per cent”. On childcare, […]
News
Beware: most people make five common mistakes when they’re talking about research, writes Laura McInerney, deputy editor of Schools Week The problem with being the sort of person who spends their Saturday in an education conference is that you eventually want to communicate what you learned with someone who doesn’t spend their weekends at education […]
After a two year battle, the Department for Education (DfE) has published decision letters sent to the first waves of successful free schools. However, the DfE were “unable to find two decision letters, for ARK Bolingbroke Academy (wave 1) and Discovery Free School (wave 2).” All free school applicant groups received a letter stating whether or […]
Last week, as many teachers sweated through their first day back in the classroom, education secretary Nicky Morgan dropped a bombshell. Or did she? The furore kicked off when the Guardian’s Patrick Wintour released an article beginning with the phrase:“Compulsory setting according to ability in England’s secondary schools is to be proposed by the education secretary, Nick Morgan, in […]
This page will be updated all day with photos from the researchED conference, taking place at Raine’s Foundation school in east London. Stay tuned for more. Dylan Wiliam in the speakers room
The organisers of the ResearchEd conference have promised a packed schedule that will bring the best of education research to the fore, ahead of the event tomorrow. Speaking to Schools Week, ResearchEd founder and director Tom Bennett said it represented a great opportunity to bring teachers, researchers, academics and policy makers together. “The unique selling […]
Our very own Deputy Editor Laura McInerney kicks-off the opinion piece section with what led her into journalism and the role at Schools Week Growing up my mum only ever said I couldn’t do one job, and journalism was it. The fateful blow was dealt when I was seven, and had just shelled out £3.99 on a […]
Want to stay ahead of the crowd on schools news? Like to know what the education secretary is planning, or which school just got the best Ofsted ever? Or may be you just really like in-depth, investigative education journalism, determined to get past the bluster and explain the facts? If so, Schools Week is for […]
