Teaching apprenticeships offer the continuity children crave Predictable adults support predictable lessons, which lowers anxiety and increases engagement
Mixed-setting trusts are a smart choice, not a messy compromise By design, mixed-setting trusts dissolve the boundaries between ‘mainstream’ and ‘special’
Tech jobs feel out of reach to students, but we can change that Students walking past some of the world鈥檚 most innovative tech and knowledge-based companies rarely envision themselves working inside
The gulf between ambition and reality on curriculum reform聽 The wind of change is blowing in education. The question is whether teachers and leaders will be energised by the breeze
Siloed trusts are the elephant in the room on inclusion We need a national expectation that compels partnership, aligns accountability and reconnects the fragments of our system
First report cards show Ofsted still requires improvement Despite Ofsted鈥檚 grandiose claims, it is dedicated staff and leaders who are at the front line of ‘improving lives’ and ‘raising standards’ every day
Guessing why more children may have complex needs isn鈥檛 complex The system that we currently have – formulated in around 2014 is completely unworkable
MPs and Lords face off over trust admissions and phone bans Shadow education secretary says Lords amendments would ‘restore some common sense’
Governance in AP demands a non-mainstream approach Alternative provision is not a footnote in the system. For the young people who need it, it is the system