Curriculum

Teaching should instil ‘ethos and ability’ to care for natural environment, former schools minister tells peers

One of the knock-on effects of Brexit was that FE colleges were obliged to part ways with the EU’s very successful Erasmus+ student exchange programme. Its domestic replacement, the Turing scheme, is now under way, but how does it compare with the previous system? Chris Parr reports

Bring back food A level to help reverse decline in cooking skills and improve health, says National Food Strategy

‘Classic’ texts can often bring damaging assumptions and representations to the classroom – we need to reset our choices, says Laura Ovenden

Covid has presented a chance to give pupils the skills needed for tomorrow’s digital workforce, says Thusha Rajendran

A subject-by-subject guide to proposals set out today by the DfE and Ofqual for next year’s GCSEs and A levels

Leader Julian Grenier says he often acts like a hamster in a wheel when it comes to change – but calmness is key now

While young children often say they want to be a footballer, a ballerina or, increasingly, a YouTuber when they grow up, it is important to teach them at an early age about other potential career pathways so that they are better informed about the direction they wish their futures to take, says James Evelyn

A new report reveals that very little of the prose used in the teaching of English in key stages 2 to 5 is by writers of colour. So, what can educators do to ensure students are exposed to a more ethnically varied and representative selection of texts? Christina Quaine finds out

Some 34 per cent of school-age children are BAME – just 0.7 per cent of GCSE students covered novelist of colour in exam

The Royal Society of Chemistry fears come as Tes survey finds one in five schools has yet to reopen its science lab

Claims that the ‘North-South divide’ in student attainment is down to poor school leadership and weak teaching could be used to drive the government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda. But research suggests such arguments may be flawed – and that the real culprit is long-term economic deprivation. John Morgan reports