Friday
Is this the best way to ignite a passion for science?
In the science classroom, students need to have the opportunity to make real-life scientific discoveries, stresses Jo Foster from the Institute for Research in Schools, who shares advice for embedding citizen science in your school
Need to know: Exam error, DfE academy plans and teacher sayings
A roundup of Tes’ most popular news and features articles from the past week, including a ‘totally unacceptable’ GCSE exam paper mistake, the DfE’s plans to hold academy trusts to account and the things teachers shouldn’t say
Teachers ‘filling gaps’ for social care, warns children’s tsar
Dame Rachel de Souza says there is now an opportunity to deliver a ‘system around the children’, and urges schools to engage
Is this the ‘death knell’ for many school business leaders?
The government’s updated school resource management strategy offers support for school business leaders – but it also appears to put their role in jeopardy, says Hilary Goldsmith
WATCH: School meals delivered by drone in UK first
Drones could soon be bringing school meals to pupils in remote parts of Scotland
In education, it’s the small ideas that can make a big difference
Blue-sky thinking is all well and good – but sometimes in education, a tweak is all that’s needed, says Helen Amass
The return of ‘The Blob’? Not in this Schools Bill
Some critics of the Schools Bill claim it is a move by ‘The Blob’ to centralise educational power – but Sam Freedman explains why such talk risks undermining important work to bring order to the academies landscape
The Tes quiz: Glastonbury, Greenland and the Games
Pit your wits against Tes’ weekly general knowledge quiz...
10 questions with...Vivienne Porritt
The WomenEd founder talks to Tes about the women who have inspired her in education and why schools should not be the victims of politics
Ofsted reports ‘not fit for purpose’, warn governance chiefs
The Ofsted inspection process has diminished the role of school governors, with it not being mentioned in three in 10 recent reports, says the NGA
Thursday
Ofsted wants MAT leaders as inspectors
Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman makes the case for multi-academy trust inspections as part of government plans to regulate the academies sector
Oak chief ‘can’t guarantee’ new UK body will hit DfE deadline
Exclusive: Oak’s principal admitted the creation of the new arm’s-length body was a ‘complicated process’
