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Memorable profile interviews of 2017-18 (Or, ‘Why would any school leader invite in a journalist?’)

Schools Week’s features editor Cath Murray looks back on some of the memorable profile interviews from this year Why would any school leader invite a journalist into their school? I would posit four main motivations, co-existing in varying proportions. First, there’s the desire to get the school on the map. Some might be contemplating forming […]

Opinion

How do we improve diversity in the media without tokenism?

Every summer, Schools Week publishes a count of how many women vs men – and how many BAME contributors – have been represented in the publication’s expert articles, front pages and profile interviews over the school year. Here Cath Murray considers why representation is important, explains how Schools Week has worked to improve it, and presents this […]

Opinion, Diversity

Caroline Wright, Director general, British Educational Suppliers’ Association

The British Educational Suppliers’ Association that she heads up is just round the corner, on the dingier side of the block. It’s her dream, she jokes, to start a day with breakfast in the café, pass through the curtains into the restaurant for lunch, and drift into the bar for the evening. For someone who […]

Features

Faith leaders and politicians write to Damian Hinds about faith cap

Faith leaders, politicians and education experts have signed a joint letter asking the education secretary to reconsider his plans to remove the 50-per-cent cap on faith-based admissions to over-subscribed free schools. The letter, which argues that the “divisive policy” is a threat to “social cohesion and respect”, is backed by 71 signatories, including former Archbishop […]

News

Top 10 books of 2017 for teachers and school leaders

The best books 2017 had to offer, chosen by Schools Week features editor, Cath Murray.   For visionaries and dreamers   1. When the adults change, everything changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour By Paul Dix   Relationships matter. People matter. As educators, we are not dealing with faceless statistics, we are dealing with brilliant, […]

Opinion

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 mission statements fronting their slick website: “Securing literacy and learning through a knowledge rich curriculum”. But if you think that will make it easy to squash their director of education into an ideological box, think again. […]

Features

A-levels 2017: Today’s top 7 stories

As A-level results day draws to a close, we round up today’s top stories. 1. Top grades up for the first time in ages… There was a rise in the proportion of pupils getting top grades at A-level in England for the first time since 2010. 2. …but the proportion getting A*s and As in […]

News

Schools Week summer book giveaway – win education books!

We love it when publishers and authors send us books to review, but every so often our shelves get too full. So, to spread the love, we’re offering a special summer subscriber offer. We will send three publications from our bookshelf to 15 lucky subscribers drawn at random. To participate, you need to complete a […]

Politics

Mike Kane, MP, Shadow schools minister

It’s Holocaust Memorial Day and parliament’s Central Lobby is bustling with school groups and easily recognised faces. Mike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, greets us himself – he has no staff in London – and seems cheerful and relaxed as he guides us past the Archbishop of Canterbury and  the Chief Rabbi to […]

Features