Opinion: Policy

How we’ll transform school support from the ground up

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

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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

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Steve Rogers
Opinion: Policy

Working-class kids don’t need fixing – our system does

Here's how Labour can finally deliver on its decades-long promise of a truly comprehensive and inclusive system - and...

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Michael Cater
Opinion: Policy

Ministers are wrong to let an app undermine results day

There’s a certain hypocrisy in rolling out an app that will keep kids at home while professing concern about...

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Jon Bryan
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s bill could tie schools to inequity through uniform

The government’s well-intentioned policy on school uniform could be undermined by failing to grasp its broader interplay with inclusion

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Caroline Barlow and Tess Howard
Opinion: Policy

The House of Lords must protect academy freedoms

Hopes lie with peers that they can prevent the worst of this bill's foreseeable consequences - and its...

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Meg Powell-Chandler
Opinion: Policy

We can’t advise our way to school improvement

Failing to deal with legal and regulatory divisions will hamper the government’s attempts to drive up standards – but...

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Matt Hood
Opinion: Policy

Three steps to making adolescence meaningful again

In the search for a policy response to the Netflix drama, are we asking the right questions of the...

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Olly Newton
Opinion: Policy

Government can and should deliver state-funded tutoring 

Our new report learns the lessons of the pandemic period to make a compelling case for a new national...

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Jen Fox and Alice Eardley