Opinion: Policy

How government can balance experience and innovation

As the Forrest Gump of education, here's what experience has taught me about balancing institutional memory with innovative thinking...

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Les Walton
Opinion: Policy

Three ways Labour can remove barriers to local leadership

To deliver a locally responsive education system, Labour must reform potent incentives that work against it

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Nicola Noble and Liz Robinson
Opinion: Policy

Three reasons this week’s STRB letter is game-changing for women

Long-running campaigns have been ackowledged and action will surely follow on fair pay and conditions

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Vivienne Porritt
Opinion: Policy

Government must square up to unscrupulous teaching agencies

Fixing recruitment will require government to face down some unprincipled players and support some dedicated staff on the margins

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Baljinder Kuller
Opinion: Policy

Finding the missing piece of the school improvement puzzle

A new research commission aims to unearth rapidly scalable insights about student engagement data – and you can be...

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Jonny Sobczyk Boddington
Opinion: Policy

Labour’s post-16 pause and review leaves settings in a tricky position

We all want the best vocational pathways for our students, but implementation is as important as design in getting...

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Caroline Doherty
Opinion: Policy

Why (and how) Ormiston is joining the phone-free movement

The success of ‘banning’ phones from some of our schools has convinced us it’s not just right but has...

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Jennifer Lowry-Johnson and Aron Whiles
Opinion: Policy

Why we should do like Australia and turn AP upside down

Rethinking what AP is for must be at the heart of any attempts to improve a system that is...

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Rhys Morris
Opinion: Policy

Labour must rethink schools’ whole relationship with data

The new government’s proposed school scorecard is an opportunity to model a more human approach to data and accountability

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Nic Ponsford