As I write this I should be packing for the school ski trip, that I’m still privileged to go on, and I can’t help but laugh about this…

The ambition of the SEND reforms is to ensure that young people move into adulthood with choice and control over their lives, and have…

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I am Rebecca Jilks, 16, and together with my brother Ben, 14, I go to the Boswells School in Essex. Last year our fantastic computer teacher…

Ed tech is a funny phrase, encompassing a lot of things. It refers of course to educational technology – but is it a group of apps? A…

TICKED OFF (Harry Fletcher-Wood, Crown House, £9.99) Checklists imposed on teachers in order to meet bureaucratic and/or political…

Arecent survey by the British Library, based on interviews with 511 secondary school and college teachers of English Language and English…

To many KS4 students, algebra is morass of letters, numbers and symbols which have to be manipulated according to arbitrary and pointless…

Governmental policy, cultural shifts and new technologies can all have a substantial impact on the needs and expectations of both teachers…

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My Y10s already know Animal Farm well, having read through it in class, and the challenge now is to get them to understand it – really…