Opinion: Policy

A city united: What Manchester teaches us about school improvement

Red or blue, Manchester shows the keys to winning are a strong grassroots game and solid teamwork

JL Dutaut
Mel Ainscow
Opinion: Policy

Our admissions policies are a key lever for social justice

We re-wrote ours to curtail the trend of poorer students being locked out of our success - and we...

JL Dutaut
Chris Fairbairn
Opinion: Policy

We must not let education TIP back into faddism

The evidence for trauma-informed practice is poor, yet its adoption is as fast as it is uncritical. This is...

JL Dutaut
Alun Francis
Opinion: Policy

Labour must curtail centralisation – not innovation

Ministers' desire for consistency and fairness always comes at a cost - and it's a cost we can't afford...

JL Dutaut
James Zuccollo
Opinion: Policy

Ministers must tackle our dangerous safeguarding blind spot

Even with the best will in the world, unregistered alternative provisions operate in a regulatory grey area that leaves...

JL Dutaut
Louis Donald
Opinion: Policy

Mapping the way out of education’s poly-crisis

This report doesn't just call for a system based on professionalism - it models it, and shows us how...

JL Dutaut
Dan Morrow
Opinion: Policy

The schools bill must do more to support displaced children

Labour’s bill promises to deliver needed change for children not in school, but without amendments one vulnerable group could...

JL Dutaut
Diana Sutton
Opinion: Policy

How we’ll transform school support from the ground up

Read Association of Education Advisers chair Les Walton's speech to the organisation's annual summit in full as they come...

JL Dutaut
Les Walton
Opinion: Policy

How we’ve boosted social mobility in our deprived area

Here’s how we went from persistently low outcomes to the most improved school in the country for disadvantaged students

JL Dutaut
Steve Rogers