General
Friday
6th Oct 2023
‘We must do more for teacher-fathers’
For the final piece in the series looking at how parenthood impacts teachers, Emma Sheppard discusses how conditions for teacher-fathers and partners can be improved
Is the end nigh for performance-related pay?
Wales dropped PRP for teachers in 2020 in favour of yearly pay rises. Could England follow suit? Grainne Hallahan follows the money
Tuesday
3rd Oct 2023
Why Scotland urgently needs better pupil absence data
The increasing proportion of pupils persistently absent from school is prompting action in other parts of the UK – so why is equivalent data not published in Scotland?
Why MATs should bridge the primary-secondary divide
Schools keen to join a multi-academy trust should look at those that share their values rather than simply clubbing together with other schools of the same phase
Monday
25th Sep 2023
British Baccalaureate: the wrong idea at the wrong time
There’s no point designing new qualifications if there’s no one there to teach them and no resources to teach them with, argues Sam Freedman
Why KCSIE is letting pupils and teachers down
By failing to align with the Achieving Best Evidence guidance used by police and social workers, schools risk inadvertently collecting evidence that may be undermined in court