Opinion

How useful are the KS2 maths SATs test results?

The key stage 2 SATs results are out, but how useful are the results? asks Anne Watson, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Education...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

The battle for informal learning

What have you been working on? I’ve been talking to teachers who are working to provide informal science teaching...

Andrew Clapham
Andrew Clapham
Opinion

Do careers talks in schools improve pupils’ life chances?

What have you been working on? The impact of school-based careers talks, with people from outside school, on earnings...

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Opinion

How can we get young people eating healthy food at lunchtime?

What’s your research about? The factors that underpin young people’s food and drink purchases in and around schools. The...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Be functional, not faddish, and keep it simple

New school buildings are a difficult brief: they must be flexible, functional, welcoming and poised for change. Educators can...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Break a habit and tap the potential of key stage 3

In a week when primary tests are dominating the headlines, Ed Cadwallader asks what happens to the “wasted years”...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Randomly allocating places in over-subscribed schools is the fairest option

As parents find out if their child will go to their preferred secondary school, Alastair Thomson considers what governors...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

‘My child was supposed to go to grammar school – we shop at Waitrose!’

When Joanne Bartley’s daughter failed her 11-plus, her opportunities contracted drastically. She has done well, but now faces a...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Our longer school day engages our students

Setting up a new school is, in equal measure, the hardest, most frustrating, most time consuming and most enjoyable...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips