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'The lesson from the East is that every child can be good at maths'

Dr Helen Drury, director of Mathematics Mastery at Ark Schools and a former head of mathematics, writes: As the education minister Liz Truss prepares to visit Shanghai next week, the debate about how our school children...

Started by: TES_opinion 19-2-2014 • 16:10

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Meet the Fockers: Ofsted talks to the bloggers

One does not simply walk into Ofsted. Ofsted doesn't catch many breaks in social media [pantomime "awwww" from the gallery]. Like any accountability body, it's a lightning rod for schadenfreude...

Started by: Tom_Bennett 19-2-2014 • 16:06
Kevin Brennan: 'Gove must listen to the evidence. Unqualified teachers are damaging standards'

Kevin Brennan MP, Labour’s shadow schools minister, writes: Last week, more evidence emerged that having unqualified teachers permanently employed in our schools is damaging school standards. After months of...

Started by: TES_opinion 18-2-2014 • 11:32
'What would be really useful would be a process that enables schools and heads to fire parents'

Hans van Broekman, principal of Liverpool College, writes: Plans that Ed Miliband unveiled last week for flying educational inspection squads are too good to be true. It requires little imagination to see how groups...

Started by: TES_opinion 17-2-2014 • 11:00
Colin Richards: 'What might a reformed Ofsted look like?'

Colin Richards, a former HMI and a primary sector specialist adviser to Ofsted, writes: There is growing pressure within, and without, the organisation for a reconstituted Ofsted. The future of inspection is being...

Started by: TES_opinion 14-2-2014 • 10:52

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Ten out of ten: Tough Young Teachers – Episode six review

I used to stop reading beloved books at the last chapter, so that they would never end. Tough Young Teachers has been so entertaining, such a carnival mirror on our profession, I felt like recording it and leaving it...

Started by: TES_Community 13-2-2014 • 22:01
Going home: A school trip to the Holy Land – Part five

There is a hole in the heart of the 20th century into which everything of value, everything that was good, fell. The Holocaust is so enormous, vast as a continent, that it feels impossible to address it. To pull back...

Started by: Tom_Bennett 13-2-2014 • 21:56
Educating the West Bank: A school trip to the Holy Land – Day 4

Yesterday the city; today, the desert. We took our pupils from Raine's Foundation School from the souks and the temples, and drove for an hour into the Judean desert, a rocky, blasted lunar landscape where nothing...

Started by: Tom_Bennett 12-2-2014 • 21:58
‘Governors govern unpaid in our spare time. By way of thanks, we are subject to intense cross-examination...

Joe Chaise, the chair of governors at a primary in the south east of England, writes: I have spent the past week swotting for Ofsted. By slightly underhand means, I obtained a list of more than forty questions that...

Started by: TES_opinion 12-2-2014 • 12:00
And did those feet in ancient times? A school trip to the Holy Land – Day 3

Another day, another enormous bowl of hummus. If you enjoy the taste of mashed chickpeas, then you are fortunate indeed to be in Jerusalem. When the manna fell for the lost tribe of Moses, I imagine at least one of them...

Started by: Tom_Bennett 11-2-2014 • 23:30

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'The lesson from the East is that every child can be good at maths'

Meet the Fockers: Ofsted talks to the bloggers

Kevin Brennan: 'Gove must listen to the evidence. Unqualified teachers are damaging standards'

'What would be really useful would be a process that enables schools and heads to fire parents'

Colin Richards: 'What might a reformed Ofsted look like?'

Ten out of ten: Tough Young Teachers – Episode six review

Going home: A school trip to the Holy Land – Part five

Educating the West Bank: A school trip to the Holy Land – Day 4

‘Governors govern unpaid in our spare time. By way of thanks, we are subject to intense cross-examination...

And did those feet in ancient times? A school trip to the Holy Land – Day 3

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