Partnerships: ‘You need to be relentless’
Joining a new school in your first headship during Covid would be challenging enough, without the simultaneous decision to turbo ...
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‘An eye-opener’ – moving from the private to the public sector
In January 2021 I made the unusual move from the independent to the state school sector. After 21 years working ...
‘Profound breakdown’ in parental attitudes to school attendance
The social contract between schools and parents is "profoundly broken" and it will take "a colossal, multi-agency effort" to rebuild ...
How We Did It: Devising a new primary curriculum from scratch
A new curriculum devised four years ago for 16 state primary schools in East Anglia has gradually been adopted by ...
Unions slam Kit Malthouse for ‘cheap shots’ at teachers
The new education secretary Kit Malthouse has been accused of taking “cheap shots” at the state school system, the TES ...
State school headmaster’s salary breaks £300,000 barrier
The head of a state-funded single-school trust has become only the second academy chief executive to earn over £300,000, Schools ...
In Focus: Beware the rising challenge of the state sector
Those responsible for crunching the admissions numbers in English independent schools find the annual DfE school census data particularly useful ...
‘The Latin Excellence Programme is a step in the right direction’
Why should the government spend £4 million pounds introducing Latin into 40 state schools in some of the most deprived ...
Latin Excellence Programme in state schools will end ‘elitist’ status
The government is launching a new Latin Excellence Programme to introduce teaching of the ancient language into more state schools. ...
250,000 children off school due to Covid last week
Around 250,000 children in England were off school last week for Covid-related reasons, new figures show, The Guardian reports. This ...
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