Curriculum

Schools must teach the skills that underpin spoken language more explicitly, Ofsted says. But what does that look like in practice? Kirstin Mulholland takes a look

NAHT says creative subjects are being ‘squeezed out’ as senior politicians from both political parties call for a broader curriculum

‘Top-down’ education reforms have a poor track record and Scotland’s school staff should be entrusted with key decisions, advises expert analysis

Three years after his appointment as the ‘catch-up tsar’, Sir Kevan Collins tells the full story of the four months he spent trying to get the government to take education recovery seriously

Outdated geography case studies can distort students’ view of the world, says Steve Brace, so it’s important to rethink some curriculum staples

Getting financial education onto the national curriculum in England a decade ago has been ‘counterproductive’, Commons Education Select Committee told

Watchdog says teaching of reading has improved but curricula for spoken and written language are less effective

Think tank report shows it’s ‘abundantly clear that there needs to be continued investment in education recovery’

Online music service based on Welsh model would help teachers and boost pupil numbers, says Scottish Labour

The right resources will be crucial to helping teachers make a success of the new curriculum, says the chief executive of Wales’ new resources body

Getting more young people into work and supporting their communities can help boost economic outcomes and the life chances of thousands of young people

An international principal in Japan explains why the school created its own diploma programme, the work done to get it off the ground and the reaction from its community