SATs are such an entrenched part of our school life that we perhaps need reminding of how they emerged and their implications for the future. Bill Boyle explores the wider context.
League Tables
Headteacher, Paul Wyllie - writing for Primary Leadership Today - discusses the pros and cons of league tables from his own personal experience.
Technical Colleges For 14-Year-Olds
Lord Dearing – writing exclusively here for Managing School Today – believes the UK’s skills deficit could be addressed by reintroducing technical colleges as an option for 14-year-olds.
Good School Design
The best way to ensure an effective and sustainable redesign for your school is to take part in the process yourself, argues Richard Hurst.
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and Encyclopaedia Britannica are to debate confidence in knowledge and how it is created at the RSA in London on Tuesday 22 July.
New figures show that permanent school exclusions have dropped by 7%, whilst temporary exclusions have risen by 4%, as schools use short but effective punishments to turn around poor behaviour.