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The most successful schools are built on the idea that teachers constantly learn, develop and improve. This requires an approach that is far…

It has been reported that the Prime Minister liked to compare the last education secretary, Michael Gove, to Chairman Mao – because both…

Schools spend many hours managing students’behaviour. In some cases, doing so can starkly eclipse much of what ought to be going on during…

As I write this I should be packing for the school ski trip, that I’m still privileged to go on, and I can’t help but laugh about this…

I had been a head teacher in Nottinghamshire for ten years before I took a post at Rushcliffe School in 2010. Rushcliffe is a mile away from…

Governmental policy, cultural shifts and new technologies can all have a substantial impact on the needs and expectations of both teachers…

A2015 report from the think tank Demos concluded that some pupils feel school is just preparing them for exam success, reporting that only…

TS: What inspired you to get into the field of education? John Hattie: The only way to leave my country town was to enrol to be a teacher…

Politics is a funny old business isn’t it? A month or so ago the Department for Education was telling anyone who would listen that…

I have quite mixed memories of school. I did always enjoy it, but it was the extracurricular stuff that I really loved, like gym, netball…

In 2010, The Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) showed that an achievement gap between rich and poor pupils existed in all…

At the beginning of February, more than 400 schools up and down the country welcomed back hundreds of former students. Caterers, doctors,…

According to Feinstein and Symons in their study Attainment in Secondary School, “parenting is much more important than schooling” and…