General
Friday
9th Apr 2021
Why unions aren’t doing enough to tackle workload
Lobbying the government on workload isn’t enough when ministers have been turning a deaf ear, writes Yvonne Williams
Are hubs or phone bans what schools really need now?
Covid has exposed dire inequalities in education – yet Gavin Williamson talks of phone bans, says Geoff Barton
Education is like the cinema, not Netflix: communal
Predictions of Covid killing off the cinema raise a worrying assumption that everything – including learning – can be done just as well at home, says Henry Hepburn
Thursday
1st Apr 2021
Are Covid-era trainee teachers screwed? Far from it
The past two years have been very hard for trainee teachers – but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad news, says Adam Riches
Teachers deserve the truth about the DfE’s Covid cash
The DfE’s repeated failure to be transparent over catch-up funding further erodes teachers’ trust, warns William Stewart
Tuesday
30th Mar 2021
Revealed: Why the DfE spread the learning styles ‘myth’
Department email to teacher hopefuls said there were ‘three types of learners’ - visual, auditory and kinaesthetic
How can the DfE help you best? Funding...or music?
The launch of a model music curriculum is welcome – but where’s the funding or training to back it up, asks Michael Tidd