Secondary

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

If the Scottish government is serious about the OECD review’s recommendations, it is hard to see how the Scottish National Standardised Assessments can continue to play a key role in monitoring pupil performance, says Emma Seith

The history curriculum is so vast, says Emma Connolly, that not getting students up to speed with what will be on the GCSE paper is doing them a disservice

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

Split classes have a negative reputation, but they can benefit teachers and pupils if managed well, says Emma Sheppard

Teacher Anne Looker was anxious about switching Shakespearean drama online – but her students showed amazing creativity

Peter Foster wasn’t initially a fan of Daniel Willingham’s groundbreaking book – and then it changed his teaching

Dividing the world into ‘developed’ or ‘developing’ countries in geography is ‘unhelpful and untrue’, says this teacher

After overhearing some of his students talking about risky investments they’d seen on social media, teacher Darren Collins decided they would benefit from lessons in personal finance. Now he is teaching young people how to be savvy with their money

The backlash against GCSE and A-level grades could be vicious – so we need to be prepared, says Yvonne Williams