Opinion: Policy

Thirteen years of free schools: Five lessons for policymakers

Policymakers on all sides must learn the lessons of the free schools programme and commit to its innovative approach...

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David Ross
Opinion: Policy

Funding teacher development must continue – whoever is in charge

A broad consensus among the profession for continued investment in the ‘golden thread’ must be reflected among political decision-makers

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David Weston and Gareth Conyard
Opinion: Policy

We must end the 30-year silence about boys’ underperformance

Boys have been at the wrong end of a gender attainment gap for three decades and it is time...

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Nick Fletcher MP
Opinion: Policy

A scaled-back Oak could have had the whole sector’s support

Judicial review is a measure of last resort but the government's actions have left us no choice to protect...

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn
Opinion: Policy

Oak: A liberating solution to workload and quality problems

Oak National Academy can be instrumental in meeting the post-Covid challenges of teacher burnout and weak curricula, writes Hamid...

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Sir Hamid Patel
Opinion: Policy

Oak is a symptom of curriculum mediocrity, not the treatment

Off-the-peg curricula are the wrong answer to a problem caused by political failure and will only perpetuate the perma-crisis,...

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Carolyn Roberts
Opinion: Policy

Time for DfE leadership on diversifying the curriculum

It won’t do to say schools are free to diversify their content when workload and accountability make it impossible,...

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EMMA SLATER