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Many wonderful, dedicated teachers won’t be teaching in September. Why?
Funding cuts, says James Bowen. Heads are forced to make redundancies, and it’s our most vulnerable pupils who suffer
15 March 2019
Book review: A Manifesto for Excellence in Schools
Rob Carpenter offers an alternative and ultimately more humane approach to school improvement in his new book
3 February 2019
Edtech hasn’t reduced workload: it’s added to it
Before wheeling out more ‘workload-saving’ edtech, developers need to speak to the experts – teachers themselves, says James Bowen
24 January 2019
How will Ofsted evaluate how much a four-year-old knows?
Many questions over early years remain as Ofsted opens a consultation on its new inspection framework, says James Bowen
17 January 2019
Be cautious of sweeping statements about topic-based learning
Ofsted is right to warn about the dangers of topic-based learning, but schools doing it well shouldn’t dismiss it as a generalisation
31 December 2018
‘Ofsted must remember that primaries and secondaries operate very differently’
The inspectorate needs to fully consider these differences when making its curriculum judgements, writes James Bowen
12 December 2018
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