General
Wednesday
20th Apr 2022
Can Scottish Attainment Challenge ever truly ‘work’?
The SAC Inquiry opened today, amid warnings that it must not miss the bigger picture
Financial education: making it an essential part of school
Teaching children about money can seem an enormous task so it is important to start young, says Gillian Darroch
Why teaching still has a diversity problem
Despite positive advances in the diversity of initial teacher training, Dan Worth and Helen Lock find that unless more efforts are made to retain these teachers at the start of their careers and offer routes to leadership, it will be a wasted opportunity
Thursday
14th Apr 2022
Class-contact time: will promised reduction actually happen?
Pledge to reduce Scottish teachers’ class-contact time is popular but doubts remain over implementation
Mitra: Why giving internet access in exams is the future - even if it’s unfair
Professor Sugata Mitra talks to ÌÇÐÄVlog about his bold claim, at the World Education Summit, that we should give students access to the internet in exams and explains in more detail how it could work
Monday
11th Apr 2022
How school leaders can get the most out of their libraries
A thriving school library has myriad benefits for staff and students, says Elizabeth Hutchinson
Teachers want more guidance on trans support, survey finds
In a new YouGov poll, educators report a rise in the number of transgender and non-binary students – and say they need more direction from the government on how to support them
Friday
8th Apr 2022
Need to know: Teacher shortage fears, Ofsted and saying sorry
Your round-up of ÌÇÐÄVlog’ most popular news and features articles from the past week
SEND Green Paper: Digital EHCP proposal divides opinion
Proposals in the SEND Green Paper to standardise and digitise Education and Health Care Plans have met with a mixed reaction from teachers, unions, privacy campaigners and SEND organisations, as Dan Worth discovers