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Teachers must abandon rote learning, says top neuropsychologist

Teachers should use a “rich and complex” understanding of memory to improve how pupils learn – throwing out rote-learning...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

School’s success not possible without young staff, says head

Having “very young members of staff” who are prepared to implement a new system of behaviour management has been...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Teach critical thought, says Hillsborough disaster academic

Teaching pupils to think critically about “truth” is as important as ever, according a top academic who investigated corrupted...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Ofsted hopes to move away from safeguarding ‘compliance’ checks

Ofsted wants its safeguarding procedures to have “impact”, rather than merely checking that schools are “compliant”, an inspector has...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

SSAT 2016: Numeracy and literacy focus narrowed the curriculum, says Sean Harford

Science and modern languages are going to get a good look-in too, says Sean Harford. Ofsted will increasingly check...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

SSAT 2016: Teaching to the test is stopping PISA progress, says Debra Kidd

Debra Kidd says pupils are primed for national exams, which is why they struggle in tests such as PISA....

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Opinion

To become education secretary, you should be privately educated, child-free and summer-born

If you want to be an education secretary you should be privately educated, have no children, and have a...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

SSAT 2016, day 1: Schools told cash reserves will face closer scrutiny as cuts bite

Academies can expect auditors to look “increasingly closely” at dwindling levels of cash reserves with experts warning the new...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg