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‘Great teaching is the opposite of what you learn in training’

The Department for Education’s former teacher in residence has claimed excellent teaching is the “direct opposite” of what he...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Two-year visa migrant teachers ease recruitment crisis

Schools are increasingly opting to employ migrant teachers on strict two year-only visas. The government’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Flexible hours demand scuppers Return to Teaching pilot

One of the largest lead schools in the government’s “returner teachers” pilot says demands for flexible working scuppered the...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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The tick-box route to QTS: four hours’ assessment and no training

The number of teachers gaining qualified status (QTS) through an “assessment-only” route – involving about four hours of lesson...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Drop in trainee teachers, and 4 other key findings from ITT data

The Department for Education has released provisional figures for the number of trainee teachers recruited for this academic year....

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Pilot ‘Teach North’ scheme to boost school performance, report demands

The government needs to improve its teacher supply model and pilot a ‘Teach North’ training project to improve school...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teach First should shun London to boost social mobility

Training provider Teach First should ditch London and instead place its top graduates into schools in the country’s ten...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden

The Slightly Awesome Teacher

This hugely ambitious and passionate book attempts to distil educational research into simple practical tools to help every teacher...

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Unpaid DfE coaching scheme for women teachers criticised as ‘tick-box exercise’

A government scheme to encourage more women to become school leaders has been dubbed a “tick-box exercise” by those...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg