Specialist Sector

The government plans outlined in the SEND Green Paper are too focused on finance – but they do give us an opportunity to tackle long-standing issues, says this special-school leader

International teaching offers attractive salaries but teachers often find that surprise costs abroad leave them short of cash – and this is an issue that schools need to consider in their recruitment processes, finds Sean Smith

Leading lights from the world of initial teacher education will debate how the sector needs to evolve by 2030 at the World Education Summit next week. Tes has had a preview of the big questions they’ll be tackling

Staff and pupils at the British School of Ukraine were forced to flee when the Russian invasion began. But, despite being scattered around the world, lessons continue, as one teacher explains

Co-teachers, a Chinese curriculum, different pedagogies – teaching in a bilingual school in China can be a steep learning curve but very rewarding, too, as these teachers explain

New special schools aren’t being built quick enough to cope with the rising demand for places – and this is a problem that urgently needs to be addressed in the government’s SEND review, says Simon Knight

The co-ordinator of the Medicine in Specialist Schools group explains why the SEND review must tackle the need to improve how children with specialist medical needs are provided for in education

As the country slowly learns to live with Covid, Steve Barker urges governors and trustees to resist jettisoning the innovative new ways of working they have developed during the pandemic

International schools have had vastly different experiences during the pandemic – which is why the head of the British Schools in the Middle East group says holding pupils to the same exam standard as in England is so concerning

Reforms in China have hit international schools hard – but there are still opportunities for those willing to adapt, explains David Mansfield

Tes sits down with International Baccalaureate director-general Olli-Pekka Heinonen to chat about everything from digital assessment and his ‘head, hand and heart’ mantra for education to why The Crown served as an unexpected source of inspiration

Covid may not have affected private schools as much as they feared – but they are not out of the woods yet, says David James