Education
Total 11 Posts
How teachers supported children and parents through COVID-19 school closures.
5 min read
Teachers went to great effort to help parents support their children’s learning during the lockdown periods.
London’s Olympic legacy: Why £2.2 billion investment in primary school PE has failed teachers.
11 min read
The 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics promised to have a major impact on school sports. Ten years on, many primary school PE lessons have been outsourced to private sports contractors, resulting in the ‘deskilling’ of a generation of teachers.
Thousands of Ukrainian children are joining UK schools, but some face issues obtaining school places.
4 min read
Only 9,900 Ukrainian children have been offered school places in England as their families left their homes and resettled in the UK. If a child is denied a place at a school, families need to know they can appeal the decision.
The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most.
4 min read
Many are alarmed by the Government’s new Schools Bill which seems designed to force some children into mainstream education against their best interests.
Legal advice: Government can’t ban the use of facemasks in schools.
2 min read
The Education Secretary doesn’t have the power to go over the heads of headteachers and ban the wearing of facemasks in school.
Lockdown schooling: Research from across the world shows reasons to be hopeful.
4 min read
Despite the major challenges lockdown-induced remote learning has presented, teachers, pupils and parents alike have reaped certain benefits. Can school learn from these changes?
Examining the financial sustainability of mainstream schools in England.
5 min read
Some schools have reduced staffing levels or changed the support provided to pupils with special educational needs and disabilities because of financial pressures on schools’ provision.