General

There’s a fine line between ensuring the right to protest and maintaining the duty to safeguard students, but as Grainne Hallahan finds, young people’s growing engagement with big issues is worth nurturing in the classroom

Anxious weeks lie ahead for secondary teachers as they prepare to evaluate students’ qualifications in line with SQA guidelines, writes Henry Hepburn

Everyone – pupils, school staff, parents, those at the DfE – should take a step back from trying to catch up for the sake of their own wellbeing, writes Jon Severs

Outgoing NAHT president Ruth Davies recalls the English teacher who taught her to think for herself and tells Tes about her hopes for the education system post-Covid

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that what makes a school a ‘school’ is not the building its staff and students occupy but the culture and values they embody, says Fionnuala Kennedy

Anecdote and opinion dominate debates about children’s exclusion from school. But what does the evidence say about how we should approach this divisive issue? Loic Menzies and Abi Angus attempt to get to the bottom of what we know about exclusion, whom it affects and why

Homeschooling opened many parents’ eyes to the value of teachers’ expertise. So, how do they do it? Lorna Shires says it’s to do with the unique ways they are able to improve the practice of others

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The Department for Education should ‘explain the rationale’ behind its behaviour experts before spending a ‘large sum of public money’

Sir Kevan Collins also says he would ‘never advocate’ increasing teaching time without raising pay

Labour leader asked how stance on independent schools squares with education of his own children

Using repurposed money to address Covid crisis is ‘completely inadequate to the scale of the challenge’, warns union