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John Townsley
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Disadvantage gap: 10 ways the DfE can tackle education inequality
As a new ministerial team enters the Department for Education, a MAT chief outlines the steps it must take to tackle the link between deprivation and underperformance
Secondary
22 September 2022
Disadvantage gap: 10 ways the DfE can tackle this educational blight
‘We must put pupil wellbeing above all else’
Because of the difficulties children have faced in lockdown, wellbeing must be our top priority, says Sir John Townsley
15 September 2020
Specialism may be down but it’s certainly not out
26 November 2010
A small victory in the war on academisation
22 October 2010
Better all round
30 January 2009