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By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Friday 15 February will mark a significant and highly unusual event in this year’s school calendar. An organisation called UK Youth Strike 4 Climate have called a mass action that will involve thousands of pupils from schools in 30 towns and cities walking out of lessons over the issue of climate...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
The new Chairman of the Commons Education Select Committee, Tory MP Robert Halfon, has sparked a national debate after saying that GCSEs (only recently reformed) should be scrapped and replaced by a broader qualification that recognises both academic and technical/vocational skills, alongside...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, has reignited a debate that continues to rumble on and on: the issue of whether mobile phones should be banned from schools. Gibb, whilst recognising that schools should be free to set their own behaviour policies, has made it clear that his personal view is that...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Ofsted has some very harsh critics, and not without good reason. Indeed, in answer to the question: How can we improve Ofsted’s role in school improvement? There will be many people who would simply say, ‘Abolish it.’ To be fair, there’s a pretty strong and compelling argument to support...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
With all the focus on academics and book learning in schools nowadays, there is a category that goes along with living life that often gets overlooked. No matter how smart you may be academically, if you don’t have the proper life skills to go along with it, you are doomed to face a painful...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
Social media is a slippery slope to navigate when you are involved in education. You may believe what you post on social media is completely harmless so even if you have “friended” parents and past students, then it won’t be a big deal. However, if I have learned anything in today’s society, it is...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
We have all seen the appalling and, apparently ever growing, incidents of teenage knife crime reported in the media. Certain elements of the press seem to take a perverse joy in screaming headlines at their readers, predicting the collapse of society and laying the blame at whichever door is open...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
The recently released NHS Long Term Plan for mental health services was broadly well-received by all stakeholders. However, it was not beyond criticism. Many NHS professionals raised doubts about how achievable some of the plan’s aims were in the context of funding and staffing pressures. One...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Now a year into her role as Chief Inspector, Amanda Spielman has frequently intimated that a change of direction in the way Ofsted carries out inspections was looming. Now the watchdog has made its intentions clear with the publication of its new Draft Inspection Framework. Subject to the usual...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
New research has found that the amount of money that schools are spending on CPD (Continuing Professional Development) has fallen considerably as the pressures of funding cuts really begin to bite. In fact, the research shows that spending on CPD has plummeted by a massive £23.2million in just a...
