The government’s policy promises partnership between families and schools.
- Professor of Education Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham
The proposal by the Scottish government does not reduce teachers’ overall hours but redistributes them.
What the new Labour government really needs to tackle is ways to stop trained teachers quitting.
Some government reforms to initial teacher training appear to have actually suppressed the number of people who can be trained.
Our findings suggest that increasing teacher pay over their whole career would help.
A one-off premium for moving to a challenging school, or another part of the country, is a lacklustre response to a big shortage. It’s also been tried before.
A look at the real causes of the teacher shortage in the wake of Lucy Kellaway quitting the FT for life as a maths teacher.
A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
Can you and should you stop free thought? Not in primary school.
Disadvantaged pupils know what they’re missing when it comes to extra-curricular activities.
Going through the motions of giving children superficial or formulaic feedback won’t help boost their learning.
On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour’s shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided…
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