Thursday
General election: what are the 3 main parties’ education policies?
With polling stations open today, we look at the main political parties’ plans for schools if they win power
How boys are being led to misogyny - and what to do about it
Vulnerable boys are being fed increasingly severe misogyny through social media, according to research from Dr Kaitlyn Regehr. She talks to Zofia Niemtus about her findings and the role schools can play in protecting male students
All schools ‘should be ordered to offer ITT places’
Teacher training should be free to all – but those who leave the state sector for private schools or to teach abroad should repay fees, says NASBTT
Maths teachers lack subject-specific training, EEF finds
An Education Endowment Foundation review also highlights ‘plateauing’ in attainment after secondary transition
Wednesday
3 ways to nurture powerful student reflection
We all want reflective students, writes Erin Miller, but our approach in nurturing this skill must be more than a tick-box exercise
Sir Kevan Collins ‘agnostic’ about school structures
Former catch-up adviser and EEF chief also says variation between schools needs to be ‘faced down’
New call for complete ban of mobile phones in Scottish schools
Smartphones in classrooms cause ‘severe loss in focus’ among pupils and fuel ‘hostility’ towards teachers, suggests petition to Scottish Parliament
Our trust attendance hub is helping us to cut absence
One trust explains the strategic approach it has taken that is providing ‘green shoots’ of recovery on school attendance
Teachers get ‘minimal’ training in helping pupils to write
A quarter of secondary teachers surveyed by the EEF report having no training on writing in the past two years
Tuesday
7 demands from North East leaders ahead of the election
School leaders’ network Schools North East’s manifesto calls on the next government to recognise the impact of long-term poverty on schools
What is the future for universal teaching resources?
A centralised bank of resources has long been heralded as a potential solution to Australia’s workload problems, but so far this promise has yet to be fully delivered
